News Archive
ISMAR Conference 2013
1 week 2 days ago
The 18th triennial ISMAR Conference will be held near Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on May 19-24, 2013. A broad program covering all areas of magnetic resonance is being planned.
ISMAR attempts to choose conference sites that span the globe over a period of years. Recent sites were Rhodes, organized by Israeli scientists (2001); Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, USA (2004); Kenting, Taiwan (2007); Florence, Italy (2010).
The 17th triennial ISMAR Conference was held July 4-9, 2010 in Florence, Italy jointly with the annual EUROMAR Conference. Professor Ivano Bertini chaired the organizing committee.
New ISMAR Fellows elected
8 weeks 5 days ago
The ISMAR Council is pleased to announce the election of the following ISMAR Fellows for 2011:
- Edwin D. Becker
- Iain D. Campbell
- G. Marius Clore
- Wayne L. Hubbell
Albert Overhauser, 1925–2011
9 weeks 5 days ago
The International Society of Magnetic Resonance mourns the death of Albert W. Overhauser, a most creative pioneer in NMR, EPR and their combination. He passed away on Dec. 10, 2011 at the age of 86. His unprecedented insight in cross relaxation paved the way for the worldwide use of the Nuclear Overhauser Effect (NOE) and Dynamic Nuclear Polarization (DNP) for use in physics, chemistry, and life sciences, in particular for structural elucidation of biomacromolecules.
Albert W. Overhauser was a Fellow of our Society. We will keep him in highest honor.
Frances Separovic Awarded the ANZMAG Medal
11 weeks 5 days ago
At the 2011 conference of the Australian & New Zealand Society for Magnetic Resonance (ANZMAG) held in Torquay, 27 Nov – 1 Dec, Professor Frances Separovic was awarded the ANZMAG Medal. The ANZMAG Medal is designed to recognise outstanding contributions to magnetic resonance. While research contributions are of primary importance, other contributions, including teaching of magnetic resonance and service to the discipline. The research or other contribution should have been undertaken principally in Australia or New Zealand.
ISMAR Announces Anatole Abragam Prize
17 weeks 2 days ago
ISMAR has created the Anatole Abragam Prize to pay tribute to the outstanding achievements of the late Anatole Abragam.
Anatole Abragam made seminal contributions to both NMR and EPR and was a recipient of the ISMAR Prize and a Fellow of ISMAR. In addition to his contributions to science, fostering science and people in science was clearly in his heart. With this in mind, ISMAR has established an award for young investigators that will bear the title "Anatole Abragam Prize". Candidates will be eligible within 5 years of completing their PhD. Candidates will be nominated by members of ISMAR. The award aims to recognize and foster outstanding young people at a typically very important point in their career.
The Anatole Abragam Prize will be presented during the opening session of ISMAR meetings, as is the case with the ISMAR Prize. The first Anatole Abragam Prize will be awarded in 2013 at the ISMAR Congress that will take place in Rio de Janeiro.
Nomination forms will be made available on the ISMAR website in due course.
Congratulations to Frances Separovic, Fellow of the Biophysical Society (USA)
18 weeks 6 days ago
Congratulations to Frances; she has been elected a Fellow of the Biophysical Society of the USA. Fellows of the Biophysical Society are chosen based on their demonstrated excellence in science, contributions to the expansion of the field of biophysics, and support of the Biophysical Society.
Citation from the announcement: Frances Separovic, University of Melbourne, for her pioneering research using solid-state NMR techniques to study the structure and dynamics of membrane-associated polypeptides.
Frances is also the current Chair of the ISMAR Nomination Committee.
Robert Blinc 1933-2011
18 weeks 6 days ago
It is with great sadness that ISMAR heard of the death of Robert Blinc. His influence on shaping Magnetic Resonance in Europe and worldwide can hardly be overestimated. Robert Blinc also had a profound influence on the Groupement AMPERE, which he chaired as President from 1990 to 1996. Those years clearly marked a particularly productive period of that organization, including celebrating 50 years of the discovery of EPR spectroscopy in Kazan, 1994. The International Society of Magnetic Resonance mourns a most creative pioneer in NMR and EPR spectroscopy and their application to solid state physics and soft matter, the Recipient of the ISMAR-Prize 1977 and Fellow of ISMAR. We will keep him in highest honor.
New version of Antiope
32 weeks 9 hours ago
The new version of Antiope, Professor John Waugh's software for simulating a wide variety of NMR experiments, is now available online at the ISMAR web site.
ISMAR Fellows named
33 weeks 5 days ago
Five magnetic resonance scientists have been named as new ISMAR Fellows:
Isao Ando, Lyndon Emsley, Clare Grey, Eriks Kupce, Gordon Roberts
New Fellows are nominated by current Fellows and elected by the ISMAR Council. See the Fellows page for a complete list of the 104 ISMAR Fellows.
Anatole Abragam 1914-2011
36 weeks 2 days ago
ISMAR is saddened to report the death of ANATOLE ABRAGAM on June 8, 2011 at the age of 96. Anatole Abragam was a true giant of Magnetic Resonance and, through his book ‘Principles of Nuclear Magnetism’, he shaped this field of science. The International Society of Magnetic Resonance mourns a most creative pioneer in NMR, EPR and their combination, the Recipient of the ISMAR Prize in 1983 and Fellow of ISMAR. We will keep him in highest regard and will find ways to express our special gratitude at an upcoming International Conference.