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Ernst Ruska Prize of the DGE


Announcement of the Ernst Ruska Prize 2011
available online now





Former Awardees



The Ernst Ruska Prize 2009 of the German Society for Electron Microscopy e.V. (DGE)

was awarded on decision of the Ernst-Ruska-Prize Committee

Dr. Linda Amos, Cambridge
Prof. Dr. Alan Craven, Glasgow
Prof. Dr. Jacques Dubochet, Lausanne
Prof. Dr. Gareth Griffiths, Oslo
Prof. Dr. Hannes Lichte, Dresden
Prof. Dr. Knut Urban, Jülich

jointly to the awardees

Prof. Rafal E. Dunin-Borkowski, Dr. Takeshi Kasama, and Prof. Molly R. McCartney

for their work on:

"Electron Holography for Characterisation of Magnetic Fields in sub-100-nm-sized Materials and Devices"


as well as to the awardees

Dr. Saori Maki-Yonekura and Dr. Koji Yonekura

for their work on:

"Contribution Toward Elucidating the Mechanisms of Biological Macromolecular Machines by Cryo-Electron Microscopy"



The awards were presented at the opening ceremony of the Microscopy Conference 2009 in Graz
on Monday, August 31st 2009.
picture of laureates 2009

The Ernst-Ruska-Prize 2007 of the German Society for Electron Microscopy e.V. (DGE)

was awarded on decision of the Ernst-Ruska-Prize Committee

Prof. Dr. Ueli Aebi, Basel
Dr. Linda Amos, Cambridge
Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Karnthaler, Wien
Prof. Dr. Knut Urban, Juelich
Dr. Heinz Schwarz, Tübingen
Prof. Dr. Michiyoshi Tanaka, Sendai

jointly to the following awardees :

Prof. Hiroshi Jinnai, Prof. Richard J. Spontak, and Prof. Paul A. Midgley

for their work on:

"Novel and Quantitative Uses of Electron Tomography in the 3D Study of Nanostructured Materials"



The awards were presented at the opening ceremony of the Microscopy Conference 2007 in Saarbrücken
on Monday, September 3rd 2007.
picture of laureates 2007

The Ernst-Ruska-Prize 2005 of the German Society for Electron Microscopy e.V. (DGE)

was awarded on decision of the Ernst-Ruska-Prize Committee

Prof. Dr. Ueli Aebi, Basel
Prof. Dr. Joachim Frank, Albany
Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Karnthaler, Wien
Prof. Dr. Harald Rose, Darmstadt
Dr. Heinz Schwarz, Tübingen
Prof. Dr. Michiyoshi Tanaka, Sendai

to the following awardees:

Dr. Andreas Thust und Dr. Wim Coene
Focus Series Reconstruction

Dr. Daniel Studer
Oscillating Knife for Ultramicrotomy

The awards were presented during the opening ceremony of the Three-Country-Conference in Davos on Monday, August 29th 2005.
picture of laureates 2005
Former Awardees of the Ernst-Ruska-Prize:

2000     Bettina Böttcher, Stephen Fuller, Marian Mankos
1996     W. Owen Saxton, Denis Chrétien
1993     Yashayuha Talmon, Gerd Knoll
1991     Joachim Zach
1989     Hannes Lichte
1987     Marin van Heel
1984     Helmut Kohl
1982     Wolfgang Baumeister
1980     Nigel Unwin, Richard Henderson
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