PERUTZ PRIZE

23 August 2022

Prize

• PR1 • 19:00 > 20:00 • PERUTZ PRIZE • Richelieu Amphithéâtre
The Max Perutz Prize is awarded in recognition of meritorious achievements in any branch of crystallography by a crystallographer having a clear affiliation with the ECA region and being an individual member of the ECA. It can be for leadership or scientific contributions or both.

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The twelfth Max Perutz Prize of the European Crystallographic Association (ECA) is awarded to Professor William (Bill) Clegg from the School of Natural and Environmental Sciences at Newcastle University, United Kingdom.
The ward will be handed to William Clegg during the opening ceremony of ECM33 by the chair of the Max Perutz Prize Committee and Marijana Đaković, president of the European Crystallographic Association.
William (Bill) Clegg receives the Perutz Prize for his outstanding contributions to crystallography by the development and exploitation of small-molecule and inorganic single crystal diffraction at synchrotron beamlines for the advancement of science and by his continuous and extraordinary commitment to crystallographic education.
A more elaborate report of Bill Clegg's career is available on the website of the European Crystallograpic Association (https://ecanews.org).

• INT9 • Communicating Crystallography > W. William CLEGG
Content : What, may we ask, is the point of doing research at all unless we show and explain to others what we have done?" This is the final sentence in an article I wrote for the IUCr Newsletter in 2020. It was specifically about the question why so many crystal structures don't get published, but it applies more generally to our work as crystallographers, in research, teaching and training, and public engagement. All scientists should be good communicators, whether that be to our colleagues, collaborators, other scientists, employers, funders, students, or the general public. Effective communication has been an important part of much of the work I have done over about 50 years, and this presentation will explore some of those facets.
Objectives : In responding to the award of the Max Perutz Prize, I am covering the topics mentioned in the prize citation and other related aspects of the communication of crystallography (and science generally) to many different target audiences.