Prizes

The Dorothy Hodgkin Prize

The Dorothy Hodgkin Prize of the BCA was instituted in 1990 on the occasion of Dorothy’s 80th birthday, in recognition of her great contributions to science in general and to crystallography in particular. The Prize is supported by donations to the Dorothy Hodgkin Prize Fund which is a Restricted Fund of the BCA.

Nominations for this prize are welcomed from any part of the crystallographic community and the award will be made at a BCA Spring Meeting at which the awardee is expected to deliver a suitable Lecture. Awardees generally work in an area of crystallography in which Dorothy had an interest, and may have worked either with Dorothy or with one of her students.

Previous winners:
1991 Durward Cruickshank
1994 Gérard Bricogne
1997 Michael Woolfson
2000 Uli Arndt
2004 George Sheldrick (Goettingen University)
2007 Prof. Judith Howard (Durham University) “Looking Back, Leaping Forward.”
2010 Prof. Dame Louise Johnson (University of Oxford) “Forty years of structural biology: where have we come from and where might we be going?”

The Bragg Lecture

The BCA is proud to have hosted many recent Bragg Lectures. Lecturers are chosen by the Bragg Lecture Fund Committee approximately every three years and the lecture is one of the highlights of the British Crystallographic Association Spring Meeting programme.

1962 P. P. Ewald – Leeds and The Royal Institution, London
1965 Kathleen Lonsdale – Melbourne, Adelaide, and Perth, Australia
1968 Dorothy Hodgkin – Manchester
1970 B. E. Warren – The Royal Institution, London
1973 R. W. G. Wyckoff – Cambridge
1981 H. Lipson – Leeds and The Royal Institution, London “W. L. Bragg
- Scientific Revolutionary”
1982 M. M. Woolfson – Manchester, Cambridge “Structural
Crystallography in the 80s”
1985 Sir David Phillips – Leeds and The Royal Institution, London “The
Silver Jubilee of Successful Protein Crystallography”
1987 B. W. Matthews – Perth and Adelaide, Australia
1993 Sir Gordon Cox – Manchester, and The Royal Institution, London
“Bliss was it in that Dawn to be Alive”
1993 Max Perutz – Manchester, and The Royal Institution, London “How
Lawrence Bragg proved me Wrong”
1994 A. M. Glazer – Newcastle-upon-Tyne “Crystals Make Light Work”
1996 K. C. Holmes – Cambridge “Structural Biology of Macromolecules
and the Development of X-Ray Diffraction”
1997 D. W. J. Cruickshank – Leeds and The Royal Institution, London
“Gordon Cox and the Increasing Power of X-Ray Structure Analysis”
1999 J. D. Dunitz – Glasgow and Cambridge  ”Polymorphism: the Same but
Different”
2004 John Finney – “Beyond Bragg’s Law: crystallography without a lattice”
2007 Roger Penrose – “Quasi-Crystals and Non-local Assembly: A Quantum-Theory foundations issue?”
2010 John Meurig Thomas – “The promise and essence of 4 D microscopy”

The Lonsdale Lecture

The Lonsdale Lecture is awarded by the BCA on the recommendation of the Young Crystallographers Group. The range of topics encompass all areas of crystallography and diffraction and the lectures tend to have an element of teaching.

2006 Prof. Mike Glazer (Oxford)
2007 Prof. Bill David (ISIS/RAL) “Combinatorial Studies of Hydrogen Storage Materials – Playing the Odds.”
2009 Dr. David Watkin (Oxford) “Crystallography – Technology, Science or a Black Art?”
2011 Prof. John Helliwell (University of Manchester) “The evolution of synchrotron radiation and the growth of its importance in crystallography”

The BCA Prize Lecture

The BCA Prize Lecture is awarded by the BCA President at appropriate times.

2002 Bill David (ISIS/RAL)
2005 Andrew Leslie (MRC LMB Cambridge)
2008 Tony Crowther (MRC LMB Cambridge) “From Molecular Replacement to the Structure of Viruses: a Tale of Two Careers”