Award Holders

  • 2023 Elena G. Bagryanskaya (Russia) Distinguished for her outstanding contribution to the application of advanced EPR methods to study molecular macrosystems containing electron spins.
  • 2022 Sankaran Subramanian (India) Distinguished in recognition of his pioneering contributions to FT-EPR imaging for non-invasive quantitative tumor oximetry in cancer research
  • 2021 Sergei V. Demishev (Russia) Distinguished for his achievements in the field of application of EPR methods to the study of quantum materials including strongly correlated metals and quantum critical systems.
  • 2021 Jörg Wrachtrup (Germany)
    Distinguished for his achievements in the field of application of EPR methods to the study of quantum materials including single-spin systems and materials for spin technology. 
  • 2020 Klaus-Peter Dinse (Germany)
    Distinguished for his contributions to EPR spectroscopy  of organic supramolecular systems and novel catalytic complexes.
  • 2019 Hitoshi Ohta (Japan)
    Distinguished for his outstanding contributions to terahertz high-field EPR instrumentation and its applications in solid-state physics. 
  • 2018 R. David Britt (USA)
    Distinguished for the  achievement in pioneering advanced EPR methodologies, and their implementation in the study of biologically significant metalloenzymes like the oxygen-evolving complex in photosynthesis.
  • 2017 Takeji Takui (Japan)
    Distinguished for  for the laureate's contributions to the development of organic high-spin and open-shell molecules and their EPR-based quantum spin technology.
  • 2016 Michael K. Bowman (USA)
    Distinguished for the laureate’s contribution to the development of pulsed EPRand its application in radiation chemistry and molecular biophysics.
  • 2016 Arnold M. Raitsimring (USA)
    Distinguished for the laureate’s contribution to the development of pulsed EPR and its application in radiation chemistry and molecular biophysics.
  • 2015 Vadim A. Atsarkin (Russia)
    Distinguished for the laureate’s contribution to the development of spin thermodynamics and to studying the dynamic nuclear polarization phenomenon.
  • 2015 Dante Gatteschi (Italy)
    Distinguished for the laureate’s contribution to the understanding of the nature of the single molecule magnets.
  • 2014 Thomas Prisner (Germany)
    Distinguished for the development of multi-frequency PELDOR spectroscopy for measuring intramolecular distances and orientations of spin-labelled proteins and single-stranded DNA molecules.
  • 2014 Gunnar Jeschke (Switzerland)
    Distinguished for the development of experimental techniques and theoretical interpretations of dipolar EPR spectroscopy for structure determination with high precision on the nanoscopic level.
  • 2013 Yuri D. Tsvetkov (Russia)
    Distinguished for his contribution to the application of pulse EPR methods to studying structure of disordered systems.
  • 2012 Richard W. Fessenden  (USA)
    Distinguished for his fundamental studies of short-lived free radicals produced in liquids by high energy radiation.
  • 2011 Seigo Yamauchi (Japan)
    Distinguished for his contribution to multi-resonance and multi-frequency time-resolved EPR spectroscopy in elucidating the electronic structures of excited states in organic and metallo-organic complexes.
  • 2010 Hans Wolfgang Spiess (Germany)
    Distinguished for his contribution to pulse magnetic resonance methodology in elucidating structure, order and dynamics of supramolecular systems.
  • 2009 Daniella Goldfarb (Israel)
    Distinguished for her contribution to pulsed high-field ENDOR methodology and applications to metalloproteins and zeolites.
  • 2008 Michael Mehring (Germany)
    Distinguished for his contribution to the pulsed ENDOR technique and concepts of quantum computing with electron and nuclear spins.
  • 2007 Brian Mark Hoffman (USA)
    Distinguished for his contribution to fundamental magnetic resonance studies of metalloenzymes, their catalytic intermediates, and electron transfer between proteins.
  • 2006 J. Schmidt (the Netherlands)
    Distinguished for his contribution to high-field and high-frequency pulsed EPR and ENDOR techniques applied to semiconductor nanomaterials.
  • 2005 Harold Swartz (USA)
    Distinguished for his contribution to the development of in vivo spin-trapping EPR and EPR oximetry for clinical applications.
  • 2004 Kev M. Salikhov (Russia) & Dietmar Stehlik (Germany)
    Distinguished for their contributions to the theory of EPR and its application to problems of chemistry and biochemistry.
  • 2003 Wayne L.Hubbell (USA)
    Distinguished for the development and applications of the site-directed spin-label method.
  • 2002 Wolfgang Lubitz (Germany)
    Distinguished for his contribution to the multifrequency EPR spectroscopy in bacterial and plant photosynthesis.
  • 2001  Keith A. Mclauchlan (United Kingdom)
    Distinguished for his contribution to the identification of short-lived free radicals after their formation in a laser flash.
  • 2000  Bruker Analytik GmbH (Germany)
    Distinguished for the achievements in the development of instruments leading to novel applications of the electron paramagnetic resonance technique.
  • 2000  Harden M. McConnell  (USA)
    Distinguished for his contribution to the understanding of hyperfine interactions in organic and biological systems.
  • 1999 Joan van der Waals (The Netherlands)
    Distinguished for his contribution to EPR studies of photo-excited triplet molecules.
  • 1998 Jack H. Freed (USA)
    Distinguished for his contribution to the multifrequency EPR studies of molecular motion in liquids and restricted media.
  • 1997 Kamil A. Valiev (Russia)
    Distinguished for his contribution to the development of the theory of spin relaxation.
  • 1996 George Feher (USA)
    Distinguished for his contribution to the development of magnetic resonance in solid state physics and photosynthesis research.
  • 1995 James S. Hyde (USA)
    Distinguished for his contribution to the instrumentation and methodology of electron paramagnetic resonance.
  • 1994 Yakov S. Lebedev (Russia) & Klaus Möbius (Germany)
    Distinguished for their contributions to the development of new EPR methods and their applications in chemistry.
  • 1994 James R. Norris (USA)
    Distinguished for his innovative contributions to the elucidation of molecular structure of paramagnetic species in photosynthetic reaction centers.
  • 1993 Arthur Schweiger (Switzerland)
    Distinguished for his contribution to the development of pulsed electron paramagnetic resonance.
  • 1992 Brebis Bleaney (United Kingdom)
    Distinguished for his contribution to the theory and practice of electron paramagnetic resonance of transition ions in crystals.
  • 1991 William B. Mims (USA)
    Distinguished for his contribution to the establishment of the fundamentals of electron spin echo spectroscopy and its chemical, physical and biological applications.