Top European prize for Chemistry academic
Posted on 24 May 2006
The Max Perutz ECA Prize recognises a significant achievement or discovery in crystallography in the past five to ten years.Eleanor Dodson was elected a fellow of the Royal Society (Britain's leading scientific honour) in 2003. She has been a researcher at the University since 1976. Her main research interest is in developing methodology for solving macromolecular crystal structures, for example, the analysis of large biological molecules such as proteins and DNA.
I am very pleased to receive the prize as I knew Max Perutz well, and worked with him on related problems at one stage
Professor Dodson
The prize, including a monetary award and certificate of recognition, will be awarded to Professor Dodson at the opening ceremony of the 23rd European Crystallography meeting in Leuven, Belgium in August 2006.
Crystallography is the technique which can provide the most detailed structural information from a molecule, but extracting this information from the X-ray images scattered by the crystal becomes increasingly difficult with the size of the molecule being studied.
After Max Perutz's death in 2002, the ECA decided to name the award in his honour. Professor Dodson said, "I am very pleased to receive the prize as I knew Max Perutz well, and worked with him on related problems at one stage".
Notes to editors:
- The Department of Chemistry at the University of York has an excellent reputation for teaching and research. In the last Research Assessment Exercise the department was awarded a 5 rating. It is led by Royal Society of Chemistry prize-winners in all three branches of physical, organic and inorganic chemistry. It has 46 members of academic staff, more than 380 undergraduate students, 150 graduates and 90 research fellows.