The Sidhu Award will be destowed at the 2022 PDS conference. It is awarded for Outstanding Contributions to the Fields of Crystallography or Diffraction by a Scientist within Six Years of Her / His Ph.D.
The 2021 George Jeffrey Award for Outstanding Graduate Students to attend the Congress of the IUCr.
Welcome to our Website
The Pittsburgh Diffraction
Society (PDS) is
a not-for-profit organization which promotes fundamental and
applied diffraction and crystallographic research and the
exchange of ideas and information concerning such research.
The PDS was founded by Professor Surain S. Sidhu who organized
the first Pittsburgh Diffraction Conference in 1943.
Since that time the PDS has sponsored an annual conference which
is held annually, returning to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania every five years.
Professor Sidhu is remembered and honored through
the Sidhu Award, given to an outstanding scientist who is within six years
of having earned the Ph.D. or its equivalent. Other
awards sponsored by the PDS to support and encourage young
scientists include
the George Jeffrey
Award, which provides
travel assistance for students attending the triennial Congress
of the International Union of Crystallography, and
the Chung Soo
Yoo Award given to the best student presenter at the annual
Pittsburgh Diffraction Conference, and the Bryan M. Craven Scholarship, given to a foreign student, preferably from New Zealand or Australia, to assist with travel expenses to participate in the ACA Summer Course in Crystallography.
Related Links
The International Union of Crystallography
The American
Crystallographic Association
The ACA service
crystallography homepage
The ACA
small molecule SIG homepage