Argonne's Joachimiak and Rosenbaum Honored with 2007 Compton Award
ARGONNE, Ill. (May 7, 2007) — The Department of Energy's Advanced Photon Source
(APS) and the APS Users Organization have announced that the 2007 Arthur
H. Compton Award will be presented jointly to Andrzej Joachimiak and Gerold
Rosenbaum of Argonne National Laboratory for pioneering advances and leadership
that helped to establish the APS as a premier location worldwide for protein
crystallography research.
"Andrzej and Gerd were nominated for the Compton Award because of their
individual, key contributions to protein crystallography research at the APS.
The award underscores the worldwide stature of protein crystallography conducted
at the APS and the importance of this field of research," said Murray
Gibson, Argonne associate laboratory director for scientific user facilities. "It
is a reflection of the quality of their work, dedication and the major role
they both play in protein structure determination."
Andrzej Joachimiak is recognized both for his talents as a prolific crystallographer
and methodological innovator working with difficult structures. He has been
instrumental in establishing structural genomics as a part of modern biology
and serves as director of both the Structural
Biology Center and the
Midwest Center for Structural
Genomics, each within the Biosciences
Division at Argonne.
Gerold Rosenbaum is recognized for his pioneering demonstration in 1970 that
synchrotron radiation could be a source for biological X-ray diffraction as
well as his innovative designs, that have set the world standard for biological
diffraction. Currently Rosenbaum is a senior beamline scientist at the Southeast
Regional Collaborative Access Team, operated at the APS by the University of
Georgia, where he holds an appointment with the Department of Biochemistry
and Molecular Biology.
The award will be presented Monday, May 7, at the first science session of
2007 Users Week at Argonne.
The Arthur H. Compton award was established in 1995 by the APS Users Organization
to recognize an important scientific or technical accomplishment at, or beneficial
to, the Advanced Photon Source.
Compton was an American physicist who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1927
for discovering and explaining changes in x-ray wavelengths resulting from
x-ray collisions with electrons, the so-called Compton effect. This important
discovery in 1922 confirmed the dual nature (wave and particle) of electromagnetic
radiation.
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