Mark Spackman Awarded the Aminoff Prize

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (RSAS) has awarded the Gregori Aminoff Prize in Crystallography 2013 to Mark Spackman, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia and  Carlo Gatti, Institute of Molecular Sciences and Technology, Italian National Research Council (CNR-ISTM), Milan, Italy.

Mark Spackman devised and implemented a new scheme for partitioning crystal space into molecular and atomic volumes limited by Hirshfeld surfaces, which reflect the nature and strength of interatomic and intermolecular interactions in quantitative terms. 

This is an extremely prestigious honour, awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. The RACI would like to warmly congratulate Professor Spackman on being awarded this wonderful prize. You can read more about the award here.

Professor Mark Spackman

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