Schrödinger Medal
The Schrödinger Medal is an award of the World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists (WATOC) for theoretical chemistry and computational chemistry, which is awarded annually. It is named after Erwin Schrödinger .
The first winners were chosen by the company's governing bodies and honored at the first two congresses, after which the members elected.
Award winners
At the first congress in 1987: Enrico Clementi , Raymond Daudel , Kenichi Fukui , William N. Lipscomb , Per-Olov Löwdin , Angelo Mangini , Juri Anatoljewitsch Ovchinnikov (Yuri A. Ovchinikov), John A. Pople , Bernard Pullman , Paul von Ragué Schleyer .
At the second congress in 1990: Michael JS Dewar , Roald Hoffmann , Camille Sandorfy , Henry F. Schaefer .
Other award winners (with laudation):
- 1991 Keiji Morokuma for pioneering contributions to the development and application of theoretical and computational chemistry.
- 1992 Josef Michl for innovative contributions to the application of theoretical and computational chemistry, especially in organic photochemistry.
- 1993 Jan Almlöf for insightful contributions to the development and efficient methods for calculations in quantum chemistry, including direct methods.
- 1994 Leo Radom for pioneering contributions to the application of computational chemistry.
- 1995 Werner Kutzelnigg for the development of theoretical methods in the field of electron correlation, NMR calculation and relativistic quantum chemistry.
- 1996 Norman L. Allinger for pioneering contributions to the development and application of molecular mechanics.
- 1997 Nicholas C. Handy as leader of the current renaissance of British theoretical chemistry and his outstanding contributions to the methods of quantum chemistry and density functional theory .
- 1998 Kendall N. Houk for achievements in the development of theoretical concepts and applications to computational methods to understand the origins of organic reactivity and stereoselectivity.
- 1999 Björn O. Roos for the development of important new theoretical methods, including CASPT2, and for outstanding chemical applications on excited electronic states of molecular systems.
- 2000 Axel Becke for the development of generalized gradient methods in density functional theory.
- 2001 Ernest Davidson for a wealth of pioneering contributions to molecular mechanics and quantum mechanics.
- 2002 Walter Thiel for the development of semi-empirical methods and their application to large chemical systems.
- 2003 Peter Pulay for his development of analytical gradient methods for the evaluation of NMR parameters.
- 2004 Tom Ziegler for outstanding applications of density functional theory, especially in organometallic chemistry.
- 2005 Michele Parrinello for the union of molecular dynamics with density functional theory.
- 2006 Donald Truhlar for his outstanding contributions to the theory and calculation of the dynamics of chemical reactions in the ground state and in excited states.
- 2007 Sason Shaik for outstanding contributions to the understanding of chemical bonds, reaction mechanisms in organic chemistry and enzymatic reactivity.
- 2008 Rodney J. Bartlett for outstanding work on the systematic development of methods of correlated wave functions, especially many-body perturbation theory and coupled cluster theory.
- 2009 Gernot Frenking for outstanding work on computational organometallic chemistry and fundamental contributions to the understanding of chemical bonding.
- 2010 Evert Jan Baerends for pioneering contributions to the development of computational density functional methods and his fundamental contributions to density functional theory and density matrix theory.
- 2011 Peter Gill for outstanding contributions to intracules, resolution of Coulomb operators, perturbation theory techniques and two-electron systems.
- 2012 Pekka Pyykkö for pioneering contributions to relativistic quantum chemistry.
- 2013 Stefan Grimme for outstanding work on ab initio and density functional methods in large molecules.
- 2014 Mark S. Gordon for the development and implementation of ab initio methods for electronic structure and their application to complex systems.
- 2015 Helmut Schwarz for the successful combination of important experimental and computational research on mass spectrometry and catalysis.
- 2016 Hiroshi Nakatsuji for the discovery and development of general methods for solving the Schrödinger equation for atoms and molecules.
- 2017 Pavel Hobza for his work on non-covalent interaction.
- 2018 Klaus Ruedenberg for his work on ab initio quantum chemistry.
- 2019 Joachim Sauer for his contributions to the quantum chemistry of solids and its application in heterogeneous catalysis
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Notes and individual references
- ↑ Two-electron correlation function