News just received from the French Crystallographic Association (and
thus forwarded to ccp4bb):
The fifth Max Perutz Prize of the European Crystallographic Association
goes to to Professor Claude Lecomte from Nancy Université and CNRS, France.
Claude Lecomte is recognised for his contributions to the measurement
and analysis of high resolution X-ray crystallographic charge densities
and the insight it has provided.
He is acknowledged for pioneering work on high-resolution analyses and
charge density modelling of polypeptide and other macromolecular
structures based on the analysis of multiple electron density
determinations using non-spherical scattering factors.
He applied this formalism to hydrogen bonding, porphyrins and metastable
states of light-induced spin-transition complexes and to the evaluation
of the electrostatic potential from diffraction data on the above and on
zeolites, zeolite-like materials and proteins.
Prof Lecomte will present an acceptance Lecture at the Opening Ceremony
of ECM26 in Darmstadt.
http://www.ecanews.org/ecaprize.php
My congratulations to him.
Fred.
