WATOC Fellows
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 The World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists WATOC Officers |
WATOC Scientific Board
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| Next WATOC Congress | |
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| WATOC 2011 will be held in
Santiago de Compostela, Spain. July 17-22, 2011 Organizer: Manuel Yañez |
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| Future WATOC Congress | |
| WATOC 2014 will be held in
Santiago, Chile |
| WATOC AWARDS | ||
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| Year | Schroedinger Medal "for the outstanding computational chemist in the world who has not previously been awarded this honor" | Dirac Medal "for the outstanding computational chemist in the world under the age of 40" |
| 2011 | Peter Gill: For his outstanding contributions to intracules, Coulomb operator resolutions, perturbative techniques, and two-electron systems. | Leticia Gonzalez: For her outstanding contributions to the combination of accurate quantum chemical methods for electronic excited states with quantum reaction dynamics to control chemical reactions. |
| 2010 | Evert Jan Baerends: For his pioneering contributions to the development of computational density functional methods and his fundamental contributions to density functional theory and density matrix theory. | Daniel Crawford: For a range of outstanding advances in theoretical chemistry, including reduced-scaling coupled-cluster methods for computing optical rotation and CD spectra of large chiral molecules. |
| 2009 | Gernot Frenking: For his outstanding work on computational organometallic chemistry and his fundamental contributions to the understanding of the chemical bond | Jeremy Harvey: For his outstanding work on the chemical reactivity of transition metal compounds, the understanding of organometallic catalysis, and the use of density functional theory for transition metal elements. |
| 2008 | Rod Bartlett: For his outstanding work on the systematic development of correlated wave function methods, especially many-body perturbation theory and coupled cluster theory. | Kenneth Ruud: For his outstanding work on the development of ab initio methods for the calculation of molecular properties involving external sources of magnetic or electric fields |
| 2007 | Sason Shaik: For his outstanding contributions to the understanding of the chemical bond, reaction mechanisms in organic chemistry, and enzymatic reactivity. | Anna Krylov: For her outstanding research on new methods in electronic structure theory for the description of bond-breaking, in particular the spin-flip method. |
| 2006 | Don Truhlar: For his outstanding contributions to the theory and computation of chemical reaction dynamics in ground and excited states. | Lucas Visscher: For his outstanding achievements in relativistic quantum chemistry. |
| 2005 | Michele Parrinello: For the unification of molecular dynamics with density functional theory. | Ursula Roethlisberger: For her research on the Car-Parrinello simulation of chemical and biochemical systems, typified by studies on chiral Pd(II) chlorosilyl complexes |
| 2004 | Tom Ziegler: For outstanding applications of density functional theory, especially to organometallic chemistry | Jan Martin: (a) For the development and application of accurate methods for the prediction of thermochemical quantities. (b) For important collaborations with his experimental biochemistry colleagues. |
| 2003 | Peter Pulay: For his development of analytic gradient methods and methods for the evaluation of NMR parameters. | Peter Schreiner: For outstanding applications of quantum chemistry to physical organic chemistry. |
| 2002 | Walter Thiel: For the development of semi-empirical methods and the application to large chemical systems. | Jerzy Cioslowski: For invaluable contributions to the study of fullerenes and to the understanding of the chemical bond. |
| 2001 | Ernest Davidson: For a wealth of pioneering contributions to molecular and quantum mechanics. | Martin Kaupp: For his application of electronic structure theory to NMR, especially involving heavier elements. |
| 2000 | Axel Becke: For the development of generalised gradient methods in density functional theory. | Jiali Gao: For the development of methods incorporating both quantum mechanics and molecular mechanics. |
| 1999 | Björn O. Roos: For the development of important new theoretical methods, including the CASPT2 method, and for outstanding chemical applications to the excited electronic states of molecular systems" | Peter Gill: For his pioneering contributions to the efficient calculation of coulomb, exchange and correlation energies in density-functional- and wave-function based calculations |
| 1998 | Kendall N. Houk: For achievements in the development of theoretical concepts and applications of computational methods to the understanding of the origins of organic reactivity and stereoselectivity" | Timothy J. Lee: For his significant contributions in the development of ab initio quantum chemistry methods and their application to important problems in atmospheric chemistry and theoretical spectroscopy |
| 1997 | Nicholas C. Handy: As the leader of the contemporary renaissance in British theoretical chemistry vis his outstanding contributions to the methods of quantum chemistry and density functional theory. | |
| 1996 | Norman L. Allinger | |
| 1995 | Werner Kutzelnigg | |
| 1994 | Leo Radom | |
| 1993 | Jan Almlof | |
| 1992 | Josef Michl | |
| 1991 | Keiji Morokuma | |
| 1990 | Fritz Schaefer | |