The Russell Varian Prize

The Russell Varian prize honors the memory of the pioneer behind the first commercial Nuclear Magnetic Resonance spectrometers and co-founder of Varian Associates.

The prize is awarded to a researcher based on a single innovative contribution (a single paper, patent, lecture, or piece of hardware) that has proven of high and broad impact on state-of-the-art NMR technology.
The prize aims to award the initial contribution that laid the ground for the specific technology of great importance in state-of-the-art NMR.
In case of multiple authorship, the prize is awarded to the author with the largest creative and innovative share of the contribution. Only in exceptional cases of truly equal shares can the prize be split between two authors of the same contribution.

No individual can receive the prize more than once.

The prize is sponsored by Varian Inc. and carries a monetary award of 15,000 Euro. It is currently awarded each year, alternating between the International Conference on Magnetic Resonance in Biological Systems (ICMRBS) and the EUROMAR Conference.

Prize winners become members of the Advisory Board for the Russell Varian Prize that evaluates future nominations and makes recommendations to the Prize Committee.

A representative of the organizers of the Conference where the Prize will be awarded is invited to be a temporary member of the selection committee.