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Category: Prizes

  • Sackler Prize in Biophysics renamed after three laureates call for a name change

    Sackler Prize in Biophysics renamed after three laureates call for a name change

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    Following a ScienceInsider feature in the June 2024 issue for Science in which all three laureates called for renaming the prize, Tel Aviv University has renamed the prestigious Raymond and Beverly Sackler International Prize in Biophysics to the Tel Aviv University International prize in Physics. “It is never too late to counteract the name washing…

  • Leonid Mirny shares the Sackler Prize with Cees Dekker and Petra Schwille

    Leonid Mirny shares the Sackler Prize with Cees Dekker and Petra Schwille

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    Laureates of the Raymond and Beverly Sackler International Prize in Biophysics for the Year 2024 Prof. Cornelis (Cees) Dekker, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands For his seminal contributions to single-molecule biophysics, including the application of nanotechnology to biological systems, developing single-molecule techniques leading to breakthroughs in DNA and protein sequencing with nanopores, novel insights…