Alexander Hollaender Award in Biophysics

The Alexander Hollaender Award in Biophysics one of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States award Science Prize, is awarded for outstanding achievements in the field of biophysics. He was of Henrietta W. Hollaender, donated in memory of her husband Alexander W. Hollaender (1898-1986), a radiation biologist.

Award winners

• 2013 King - Wai Yau: For innovative, rigorous, and fundamentally Contributions to the biophysics of sensory transduction in rod, cone, and non -image visual system and in olfaction.
• 2010 Watt W. Webb: For pioneering the applications of rigorous physical principles to the development of optical tools thathave Broadly Impacted our ability to examine biological systems.
• 2007 Barry H. Honig: For pioneering theoretical and computational studies of electrostatic interactions in biological macromolecules and of the energetics of protein folding.
• 2004 Carlos J. Bustamante: For his ingenious use of atomic force microscopy and laser tweezers to study the biophysical properties of proteins, DNA, and RNA, one molecule at a time.
• 2001 David J. DeRosier: For his development of three - dimensional image reconstruction methods, Which have Revolutionized electron microscopy of Subcellular structures and his analytical visualization of cellular motility mechanisms.
• 1998 Wayne A. Hendrickson: For his Contributions to macromolecular crystallography, in the development of robust methods of phasing and refinement, and in determination of complex and biologically important structures.