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Eurobic medal lecture and
closing ceremony 2008
Wroclaw, Eurobic-9
by
Jan Reedijk
Gorlaeus Laboratories, Leiden Institute of Chemistry
September 6, 2008
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Programme closing
session, Sept. 6
• Introduction of the Eurobic Medal
• Introduction of the medal lecturer
• Lecture prof. R.K.O. Sigel
• Medal Awarding
• Poster Award (Dalton sponsored)
• Next meetings of Eurobic: prof. Lippert
• Announcement details Eurobic 10
• Closing Remarks: prof. Henryk Kozlowski
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Back side of the Eurobic Medal
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Founding and Medal Jury
• Founded in 1993, after Eurobic 1 in 1992
• Endownment raised, and kept by RSC, UK
• Jury: Founders of the Medal and some
past chairs of Eurobic + previous winners
• Chair of each Jury:
A previous Chair of Eurobic
(since 2006: prof. Lippert).
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Criteria for the Award
• European Scientist (or scientist with a
career in Europe): Excellence and impact
in the field.
• Planned young; but we take no age
discrimination: this was the policy of the
first groups of jury members
• For 2008 onwards: Enough talent to make
the Award primarily dedicated to young or
mid-career scientists in the field
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EUROBIC Medalists 1994 - 2008
Medal plan started and endowment financed: late1993
EUROBIC 2, Florence 1994
Fred Hagen
EUROBIC 3, Noordwijkerhout 1996
Claudio Luchinat
EUROBIC 4, Sevilla 1998
Fraser Armstrong
EUROBIC 5, Toulouse 2000
Simon P. J. Albracht and
Juan C. Fontecilla-Camps
EUROBIC 6, Lund 2002
Peter M. H. Kroneck
EUROBIC 7, Garmisch-Partenkirchen 2004
Maria Arménia Carrondo
EUROBIC 8, Aveiro 2006
Antonio Xavier (posthumous)
EUROBIC 9, Wroclaw 2008
Roland K. O. Sigel
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Winner in 2008
• First time that a winner has a coordination
chemistry background by training
• First time the medal winner deals with
research on Metal Ions and Nucleic Acids
• This year to Roland Sigel, in recognition of
his contributions to further the basic
understanding of metal-ion interactions
with nucleic acids
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Brief CV Roland K.O. Sigel
• Born: 1971 near Basel
• First Conference: ICCC, 1974 (Dublin)
• MSc (Diplo