9th Ewald Prize - E. Dodson, C. Giacovazzo and G.M. Sheldric

The International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) has announced that Professor E. Dodson (Department of Chemistry, University of York, UK), Professor C. Giacovazzo (Institute of Crystallography-CNR, Bari, Italy) and Professor G.M. Sheldrick (Lehrstuhl fur Strukturchemie, Gottingen, Germany) have been awarded the ninth Ewald Prize for the enormous impact they have made on structural crystallography by designing new methods and providing these in algorithms and constantly maintained, renewed and extended user software. Their invaluable contributions to the computational side of the field have led to leadership with the program suites CCP4, SIR and SHELX, respectively. The presentation of the prize will be made during the Madrid Congress Opening Ceremony in August 2011. The Ewald Prize consists of a medal, a certificate and an award of USD 30,000. Former recipients are D. Sayre (USA, 2008), P. Coppens (USA, 2005), M. M. Woolfson (UK, 2002), G. N. Ramachandran (India, 1999), M. G. Rossmann (USA, 1996), N. Kato (Japan, 1993), B. K. Vainshtein (Russia, 1990), J. M. Cowley (USA) and A. F. Moodie (Australia) in 1987.