2024: Hashim Al-Hashimi
Development and application of novel spin relaxation methods to study a broad spectrum of dynamics in nucleic acids

2023: Lyndon Emsley & Anne Lesage
Development of dynamic nuclear polarization surface enhanced NMR spectroscopy (DNP SENS).

2022: Michael Garwood
Novel frequency-modulated (FM) adiabatic radiofrequency pulses that revolutionized both ex vivo and in vivo NMR.

2021: Gareth Morris
Cutting edge NMR research with a high probability of enabling beneficial new applications.

2020: Simon Duckett, Konstanin Ivanov, Warren S. Warren
Development of SABRE (Signal Amplification by Reversible Exchange)

2011: Daniel Rugar, John Mamin, and John Sidles
Conception, implementation and application of Magnetic Resonance Force Microscopy (MRFM)

2010: Paul T. Callaghan
Contributions to the study of polymeric and heterogeneous materials by advanced NMR exchange, diffusion and relaxation techniques, and for his innovative q-space-diffusion-related developments that were relevant in the context of the development of diffusion-tensor imaging.

2009: Daniel P. Weitekamp
PASADENA method that enhances sensitivity and BOOMERANG which significantly improves NMR force detection by circumventing the problems of inhomogeneous magnetic fields.

2008:  Malcom H. Levitt
Optimized pulses and pulse sequences to enhance the power of liquid and solid state NMR

2007:  Robert G. Griffin
Development of high-field dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) for sensitivity enhancement in solid-state NMR with magic-angle spinning

2006:  Thomas Szyperski, Eriks Kupce, Ray Freeman, and Rafael Bruschweiler
Acceleration of multi-dimentional NMR by novel procedures for scanning data space and efficiently processing results to obtain a conventional spectral representation

2005:  Stephan Grzesiek
Multiple classes of J couplings across hydrogen bonds

2004:  Lewis E. Kay
NMR of biological macromolecules

2003:  Jacob Schaefer
REDOR technique for solid state NMR

2002:  Ad Bax, Aksel Bothner-By, and James Prestegard
Measurement of residual dipolar couplings of weakly aligned molecules in solution

2001:  Peter Boesiger, Klaas Prüßmann, and Markus Weiger
Sensitivity-encoded magnetic resonance imaging

2000:  Lucio Frydman
Quadrupolar MQMAS

1999:  Konstantin Pervushin, Roland Riek, Gerhard Wider, and Kurt Wuthrich
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