About the Kai Siegbahn prize: The Prize was established in 2009 in honour of Kai Siegbahn, founder of Nuclear Instruments and Methods A (NIMA), who had a strong and lasting commitment to advancing synchrotron radiation science. Kai Siegbahn received the Physics Nobel Prize in 1981 “for his contribution to the development of high-resolution electron spectroscopy”.
About the Kai Siegbahn prize: The Prize was established in 2009 in honour of Kai Siegbahn, founder of Nuclear Instruments and Methods A (NIMA), who had a strong and lasting commitment to advancing synchrotron radiation science. Kai Siegbahn received the Physics Nobel Prize in 1981 “for his contribution to the development of high-resolution electron spectroscopy”.
Kai Siegbahn prize 2021: the nominations are now open!

The Editorial Board of Nuclear Instruments and Methods, Section A (NIMA) is currently accepting nominations for the following award, and we are counting on your to help us identify potential honorees! We invite you to review the award criteria, and to nominate a worthy colleague.  All nominations should be submitted via email no later than the 15th of March 2021 to Prof. Fulvio Parmigiani (chair of the scientific committee, fulvio.parmigiani@elettra.eu) and Prof. Bill Barletta (co-chair, barletta@mit.edu).

Nomination criteria:

The prize aims to recognize and encourage outstanding experimental achievements in synchrotron radiation research with a significant component of instrument development. Particular preference will be given to the development of synchrotron radiation spectroscopies.

Rules and eligibility:

Nominations are open to scientists of all nationalities without regard to the geographical site at which the work was performed.  Usually, the prize shall be awarded to one person but it may be shared if all recipients have contributed to the same accomplishment. The prize recipient should be 45 years old or younger at the time of selection. Nominations are active for two prize cycles.

Prize Nominations:    

Nominations are accepted from the NIMA advisory board, the NIM board of editors, synchrotron radiation facility directors as well as from scientists engaged in synchrotron radiation science. Nomination packages should include a nominating letter, at least one supporting letter, a list of five papers on which the award is based as well as a proposed citation for the award.

Where:

The award will be given at the SRI conference (Synchrotron Radiation Instrumentation conference) held in Hamburg, Germany from the 30th of August until the 3rd of September 2021 and a ceremony will be organized by the Physics Department of the Uppsala University, Sweden. (Please note that in the present context modifications to this organizations may occur due to the COVID-19 situation.) 

Award: 

The prize is being awarded every two years and consists of a EUR 3000 prize plus a travel allowance to the meeting at which the prize is awarded and a certificate citing the contributions made by the recipient.

Committee composition:

  • At least one member of the NIM board of editors
  • One previous prize winner
  • Three to four senior scientists from the field of  synchrotron radiation research

The scientific committee of the 2021 Kai Siegbahn prize is:

F. Parmigiani (Chair, Editor of NIMA, University of Trieste); W. Barletta  (Co-Chair, Editor in Chief of NIMA, MIT); Prof. Dr. Yulin Chen ( University of Oxford); Prof. Dr. Hermann Dürr (University of Uppsala); Dr. Robert Schoenlein ( SLAC-LCLS- Stanford); Prof. Dr. Henry Chapman (CFEL and University of Hamburg); Dr. Elke Plönjes-Palm (FLASH, DESY); Dr. Sakura Pascarelli (European XFEL); Dr Christian Tusche (Forschungszentrum Jülich)

The past winners of the prize are:

2009: Eli Rotenberg (ALS- LBNL - Berkeley, CA)

2012: Claudio Masciovecchio (ELETTRA- Sincrotrone Trieste, Italy)

2015: Giacomo Ghiringhelli (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)

2018: Christian Tusche  (Forschungszentrum GmbH, Jülich, Germany)

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