The Laukien Prize was established in 1999 to honor the memory of Professor Gunther Laukien, a co-founder of Bruker BioSpin. The Laukien Prize carries a monetary award of $20,000 funded by Bruker BioSpin and is intended to recognize cutting-edge experimental NMR research with a high probability of enabling beneficial new applications. The Prize recipient will also deliver the opening Plenary lecture at the ENC conference.

Nominations for the Laukien Prize are now being accepted. The award will be announced at the next ENC.

The nominated work should be published within the last three years. In some special cases, the award may be for cumulative achievements over a longer period.

Nominations should include the following and be submitted by October 30:

1. Name of nominee, the nominees affiliation, address, phone, fax and e-mail.
2. Name of nominator, address, phone, fax and e-mail.
3. A brief (no more than 200 words) description of the work serving as the basis for the nomination.
4. A list of relevant publications (no more than 5).

Send to: ENC LAUKIEN PRIZE, 2019 Galisteo Street, Building I-1, Santa Fe, NM 87505 (USA) or email enc@enc-conference.org

Previous Recipients:

• 1999 Konstantin Pervushin, Roland Riek, Gerhard Wider, and Kurt Wüthrich; TROSY
• 2000 Lucio Frydman; Quadrupolar MQMAS
• 2001 Peter Boesiger, Klaas Prüßmann, Markus Weiger; Sensitivity-Encoded Magnetic Resonance Imaging
• 2002 Ad Bax, Aksel Bothner-By and James Prestegard; Measurement of Residual Dipolar Couplings of Weakly Aligned Molecules in Solution
• 2003 Jacob Schaefer; REDOR Technique for Solid State NMR
• 2004 Lewis E. Kay, NMR of Biological Macromolecules
• 2005 Stephan Grzesiek, Multiple classes of J couplings across hydrogen bonds
• 2006 Thomas Szyperski, Eriks Kupce, Ray Freeman, and Rafael Bruschweiler; Acceleration of multi-dimentional NMR by novel procedures for scanning data space and efficiently processing results to obtain a conventional spectral representation
• 2007 Robert G. Griffin; Development of high-field dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) for sensitivity enhancement in solid-state NMR with magic-angle spinning
• 2008 Malcolm H. Levitt; Experimental and theoretical contributions, enabling the design of optimized pulses and pulse sequences that greatly enhance the power of liquid and solid state NMR
• 2009 Daniel P. Weitekamp; PASADENA method that enhances sensitivity and BOOMERANG that significantly improves NMR force detection by circumventing the problems of inhomogeneous magnetic fields