This year’s Ernst Awards have been presented to Dinar Abdullin, University of Bonn, Germany, Grit Sauer, TU Darmstadt, Germany, and Aurélien Bornet, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland. The prizes are presented by the Section for Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (Fachgruppe Magnetische Resonanzspektroskopie) of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh, German Chemical Society). They were presented during the Annual Meeting of the Section in Darmstadt, Germany, on September 7, 2015, and involve a lecture by the winners.

The awards are endowed with 500 € each and honor an outstanding research publication in the field of magnetic resonance by up to three young researchers.

The awardees and their prizewinning manuscripts are:

	Dinar Abdullin, University of Bonn, Germany (group of Olav Schiemann) EPR-Based Approach for the Localization of Paramagnetic Metal Ions in Biomolecules, Dinar Abdullin, Nicole Florin, Gregor Hagelueken, Olav Schiemann, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2015, 54, 1827–1831. DOI: 10.1002/anie.201410396
	Grit Sauer, TU Darmstadt, Germany (group of Gerd Buntkowsky) Effective PHIP Labeling of Bioactive Peptides Boosts the Intensity of the NMR Signal, Grit Sauer, Daichi Nasu, Daniel Tietze, Torsten Gutmann, Simon Englert, Olga Avrutina, Harald Kolmar, Gerd Buntkowsky, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2014, 53, 12941–12945. DOI: 10.1002/anie.201404668
	Aurélien Bornet, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland (group of Geoffrey Bodenhausen) Long-Lived States of Magnetically Equivalent Spins Populated by Dissolution-DNP and Revealed by Enzymatic Reactions, Aurélien Bornet, Xiao Ji, Daniele Mammoli, Basile Vuichoud, Jonas Milani, Geoffrey Bodenhausen, Sami Jannin, Chem. Eur. J. 2014, 20, 17113–17118. DOI: 10.1002/chem.201404967

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