Award Videos/Audios

Find descriptions of the Awards Presented by the American Crystallographic Association here. 

 

Branton J. Campbell, Kenneth Trueblood Award Lecture, 2025 ACA Annual Meeting, Chicago, Lombard, IL
"New Directions and Opportunities for Symmetry-Centric Structural Science"

Dmitry Lyumkis, Margaret C. Etter Early Career Award Lecture, 2025 ACA Annual Meeting, Chicago, Lombard, IL
"A Journey through the Structure, Function, Inhibition, and Evolution of HIV Integras"

Craig BrownRobert Bau Neutron Diffraction Award Lecture, 2025 ACA Annual Meeting, Chicago, Lombard, IL
"Adsorption and Separations of Small Molecules in Porous Media"
Chris D. MalliakasFankuchen Memorial Award Lecture, 2025 ACA Annual Meeting, Chicago, Lombard, IL
 "Learning, Working, and Teaching Non-Standard Crystallographic Techniques"
Harold Stokes,  Kenneth N. Trueblood Award Lecture, 2025 ACA Annual Meeting, Chicago, Lombard, IL
"Forty Years of Fun"
John E. GreedanWarren Award Lecture, 2024 ACA Annual meeting, Denver, CO
“Exploring the Structure/Property Nexus in Perovskite and Pyrochlore Oxides” 

Thomas Albrecht, Buerger Award Lecture, 2024 ACA Annual meeting, Denver, CO
“A Race Against Time: Crystallography in the Outer Limits of the Periodic Table”

Benjamin A. Frandsen, Etter Award Lecture, 2024 ACA Annual meeting, Denver, CO
"When the Tail Wags the Dog, AKA Short-range Correlations With Long-range Implications: A Magnetic PDF Story”

Tamir Gonen, Patterson Award Lecture, 2023 ACA Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD
“The Structure of Membrane Proteins" 

Gregory Petsko – National Medal of Science 2022

Kristin Hutchins, Margaret C. Etter Early Career Award, 2023 ACA Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD.
"The Dynamic Side of Crystals: How Structure Influences Function in the Solid State”  

Maged Chergui, Rognlie Award Lecture, 2023 ACA Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD
Time-resolved X-ray Spectroscopy

Airlie J. McCoy,  Trueblood Award Lecture, 2022 ACA Annual Meeting, Portland, OR,
"Molecular Replacement: Past, present, and future"

Arthur J. Schultz Bau Neutron Diffraction Award Lecture2022 ACA Annual Meeting, Portland, OR
“Single Crystal Time-of-Flight Neutron Diffraction: IPNS to SNS”

David S. GoodsellFankuchen Award Lecture2022 ACA Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon
“Art as a Tool for Structural Biology”

Julia V. Zaikina Etter Award Lecture2021 ACA Annual Meeting, virtual
"How to discover new solids containing alkali metals: predictive screening, facile synthesis, and in situ studies"

Jacqueline M. Cole, Warren Award Lecture, 2021 ACA Annual Meeting, Virtual
"Molecular Engineering of Single-Crystal Optical Actuators"

Wah Chiu, Buerger Award Lecture, 2021 ACA Annual Meeting, Virtual
“CryoEM Structures of Macromolecules”

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James M. Holton Rognlie Award, 2020 ACA Annual Meeting, Virtual
"If I Had a Trillion Dollars"

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Václav Petříček, Patterson Award, 2020 ACA Annual Meeting, Virtual
"Don't Be Afraid of Modulated Structures"

Nozomi AndoEtter Award, 2020 ACA Annual Meeting, Virtual
"Protein Allostery"

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Eaton E. Lattman,  Fankuchen Award, 2019 ACA Annual Meeting, Covington, KY
“Simple-Minded Approaches to Diffraction Concepts”

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Bryan C. Chakoumakos, Bau Award, 2019 ACA Annual Meeting, Covington, KY
"A Chronicle of Single-crystal Neutron Diffraction at Oak Ridge"

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Robert Von DreeleTrueblood Award, 2019 ACA Annual Meeting, Covington, KY
“From 1972 to GSAS-II” and “Adventures in Symmetry with GSAS-II”

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Brian H. Toby, Trueblood Award, 2019 ACA Annual Meeting, Covington, KY
“From 1972 to GSAS-II” and “Adventures in Symmetry with GSAS-II”

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Simon J.L. Billinge, Warren Award Lecture, 2018 ACA Annual Meeting, Toronto, ON, Canada 
"A series of fortunate events: how the atomic pair distribution function method went from niche technique to mainstream and beyond"

Elspeth Garman, Fankuchen Award, 2016 ACA Annual Meeting, Denver, CO 
"Travels in Protein Crystallography"   

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Benno Schoenborn, Bau Award Lecture, 2016 ACA Annual Meeting, Denver, CO
"Neutron Protein Crystallography" 

Gregory A. Petsko, Buerger Award, 2015 ACA Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA 
"Forty Years of Crystallographic Studies of Protein Structure, Function and Dynamics or Some Like It Cold - But Should They?"

John R. Helliwell, Patterson Award, 2014 ACA Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM
"Synchrotron radiation macromolecular crystallography: instrumentation, methods and applications" 

Thomas F. Koetzle, Bau Award2013 ACA Annual Meeting, Honolulu, HI
"From the Amino Acid Structures to Metal Hydrides:  Four Decades of Single-Crystal Neutron Diffraction"

Thomas C. Terwilliger, Kenneth Trueblood Award2013 ACA Annual Meeting, Honolulu, HI
"Molecular replacement and model-building using distant homology models as templates" 

Richard E. Dickerson,  Fankuchen Award2013 ACA Annual Meeting in Honolulu, HI 
"Let Us Now Praise Famous Men"

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John C. H. Spence, Buerger Award Lecture, 2012 ACA Annual Meeting, Boston, MA
 
“The Future of Diffraction Physics in Crystallography”

Ronald Hamlin, Charles Supper Award, ACA 2012 Annual Meeting, Boston, MA 
"2-Dimensional X-ray detectors - What do we really want and how can we build it?"

David WatkinFankuchen Award, ACA 2011 Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA 
"Crystallography - The Gold Standard:  Is it getting tarnished?"
 

Michael N. G. JamesBuerger Award Lecture, ACA 2009 Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA 
"From Sillimanite to Structural Biology or from Minerals to Macromolecules"

Bi-Cheng Wang, Patterson Award, 2008 ACA Annual Meeting, Knoxville, TN
"Resolution of Phase Ambiguity in Macromolecular Crystallography"

 Helen M. BermanBuerger Award, 2006 ACA Annual Meeting, Honolulu, HI
"A Personal Journey Through Structure Space"