罗素 瓦里安奖是纪念发明第一台商业核磁共振谱仪的先驱和瓦里安联营的创始人。这个奖项是奖励那些基于单项创新（单篇文章、专利、讲座或者硬件开发）对现代核磁共振技术产生深刻而广泛的影响的研究者。该奖项旨在表彰奠定了基础性，体现核磁共振最先进技术的原始性贡献。安捷伦科技公司赞助此奖项，该奖金为15000欧元。
罗素 瓦里安奖的原则：
历届罗素 瓦里安奖获得者：
Jean Jeener，名誉教授，Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium (2002):
技术： 多维度傅里叶核磁共振谱学和成像 (Multidimensional Fourier NMR spectroscopy and imaging )
奖励贡献：1971年9月在安培暑期学校（Ampere Summer School in Basko Polje）的讲座，Jean Jeener 通过今天普遍知道的COSY实验介绍二维傅里叶核磁共振谱学。
Erwin Hahn， 名誉教授， University of California, Berkeley, USA (2004):
技术：现代时域核磁共振谱仪，spin-echo现象和实验，扩散测量和J耦合测量的基础。（Basics of modern time-domain NMR spectrometers, spin-echo phenomena and experiments, diffusion measurements, and J couplings )
奖励贡献：Bull. Am. Phys. Soc. 24, No. 7, 13 (1949), reprinted in Phys. Rev. 77, 746 (1950).
Nicolaas Bloembergen, 光学教授，University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA, and Gerhard Gade University Professor Emeritus, Division of Applied Science and Physics Deparments, Harvard Univertity, Cambridge, Massachusetts USA (2005):
技术：核磁共振弛豫的分子运动实验研究 ( NMR relaxation for experimental study of molecular motion )
奖励贡献：核磁共振弛豫 ( Nuclear Magnetic Relaxation, By N. Bloembergen, E.M. Purcell and R. V. Pound, Nature, 160, 475-476, (1947 )
John S. Waugh, 名誉教授， MIT (2006 )
技术：平均哈密顿理论 ( Average Hamiltonian Theory )
奖励贡献：.S. Waugh, C.H. Wang, L.M. Huber, and R.L. Vold, "Multiple-Pulse NMR Experiments", J. Chem. Phys. 48, 662-670 (1968). This paper announces further results that appeared a few weeks later in J. S. Waugh, L. M. Huber, and U. Haeberlen, "Approach to High-Resolution NMR in Solids", Phys. Rev. Lett. 20, 180-182 (1968).
Alfred G. Redfield, 名誉物理教授， Biochemistry, and Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA (2007):
技术：弛豫理论（Relaxation Theory）
奖励贡献： "On the Theory of Relaxation Processes", IBM Journal of Research and Development 1, 19-31 (1957). Recent references to this fundamental paper are often given implicitly by quoting the revised version published by Redfield in Adv. Magn. Reson. 1, 1-32 (1965).
Alexander Pines, Glenn T. Seaborg 化学教授 UC Berkeley, and Senior Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, USA (2008):
技术： 在固体核磁中的交叉极化方法（Cross polarization method for NMR in solid NMR )
奖励贡献：Awarded Contribution: A. Pines, M. G. Gibby, and J. S. Waugh, "Proton-Enhanced Nuclear Induction Spectroscopy. A Method for High Resolution NMR of Dilute Spins in Solids", J. Chem. Phys. 56, 1776-1777 (1972).
Albert W. Overhauser, Stuart Distinguished物理教授, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA (2009):
技术：Nuclear Overhauser Effect
奖励贡献：The talk given by Albert Overhauser at the American Physical Society meeting on May 1, 1953, of which an abstract appeared as Albert W. Overhauser, Polarization of Nuclei in Metals, Phys. Rev. 91, 476 (1953), and full detail as Albert W. Overhauser, Polarization of Nuclei in Metals, Phys. Rev. 92, 411-415 (1953).
Martin Karplus, 名誉教授， Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; and Laboratoire de Chimie Biophysique, ISIS, Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France (2010):
技术：Karplus 方程（ Karplus Equation）
奖励贡献：M. Karplus, "Contact Electron-Spin Coupling of Nuclear Magnetic Moments", J. Chem. Phys. 30, 11-15 (1959).
Gareth Alun Morris, 物理化学教授， School of Chemistry, The University of Manchester, UK (2011):
技术：INEPT脉冲序列( INEPT pulse sequence )
奖励贡献：G. A. Morris and R. Freeman: "Enhancement of nuclear magnetic resonance signals by polarization transfer", J. Am. Chem. Soc. 101, 760-762 (1979).
Raymond Freeman, John Humphrey Plummer Professor of Magnetic Resonance (Emeritus), Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, UK and Weston A. Anderson, Senior Principal Scientist and Varian Fellow Emeritus (2012):
技术：双共振（double resonance）
奖励贡献：R. Freeman and W.A. Anderson: "Use of Weak Perturbing Radio-Frequency Fields in Nuclear Magnetic Double Resonance", J. Chem. Phys. 37, 2053-2074 (1962).
Lucio Frydman, Professor and Kimmel Fellow, Weizmann Institute, Chemical Physics Department, Israel (2013):
技术：超快NMR（Ultrafast NMR )
奖励贡献：L. Frydman, T. Scherf and A. Lupulescu: "The acquisition of multidimensional NMR spectra within a single scan", Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 99, 15858-15862 (2002).
Adriaan Bax, NIH distinguished investigator National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA (2014):
技术：在多维核磁谱中间接维的采集，没有办法直接通过一个FID采集到的。( The indirect dimension in multidimensional NMR spectra allows recording of spectra that cannot be recorded directly in an FID )
奖励贡献：A. Bax, A.F. Mehlkopf and J. Smidt, Homonuclear broadband decoupled absorption spectra, J. Magn. Reson. 35, 167-169 (1979)
