William A. Goddard (chemist)

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William Andrew Goddard III. (Born March 29, 1937 in El Centro (California) ) is an American theoretical chemist .

Goddard studied engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles , with a bachelor's degree in 1960 and in 1965 at Caltech Pol E. Duwez in the labor An improved many-electron theory for atom and molecules Which uses eigenfunctions of total spin doctorate . Then he was there Noyes Research Fellow and Noyes Research Instructor, from 1967 Assistant Professor of Theoretical Chemistry, from 1971 Associate Professor and from 1974 Professor. In 1967 he became a Sloan Research Fellow . From 1978 he was Professor of Chemistry and Applied Physics and from 1984 Charles and Mary Ferkel Professor of Chemistry (from 2001 also for Applied Physics).

In 1988 he received the ACS Award for Computers in Chemical and Pharmaceutical Research and in 2008 the American Chemical Society Award in Theoretical Chemistry . He is a member of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science , the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2010), the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Academy of Sciences (1984) and a Fellow of the American Physical Society . He is one of the 100 most cited chemists from 1981 to 1999 (ISI). In 2004 he received an honorary doctorate in Uppsala. In 1978 he received the Buck Witney Medal of the American Chemical Society, in 1988 the Computers in Chemistry Award, in 1999 the Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology for Theory, in 2000 the NASA Space Sciences Award and in 2000 the Richard Chase Tolman Prize of the ACS Southern California Section.

From 1973 he was a visiting scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory . He was also a consultant at General Motors Research Laboratories, Argonne National Laboratory , Bell Laboratories , Sandia National Laboratories , General Electric Research and Development Center, Shell Development Company, Research and Development Standard Oil Ohio and Triton Bioscience

In particular, he made contributions to molecular dynamics for ab initio calculations on various length and time scales. He developed the Generalized Valence Bond Method (GVB, around 1970), which uses wave functions with orbitals according to modern valence structure theory . His research fields include electronic wave functions of molecules and solids and their connection with their properties, chemical reactions and reaction mechanisms in catalysis (homogeneous and heterogeneous), electronic states of solid surfaces, simulation of biological processes and high-temperature superconductors.

Fonts (selection)

  • Goddard, WA, Dunning, TH, Hunt, WJ, Hay, PJ: Generalized valence bond description of bonding in low-lying states of molecules, Accounts of Chemical Research, Volume 6, 1973, p. 368
  • Goodgame MM, Goddard WA: Modified generalized valence-bond method: A simple correction for the electron correlation missing in generalized valence-bond wave functions; Prediction of double-well states for Cr2 and Mo2, Physical Review Letters, Volume 54, 1985, pp. 661-664
  • SL Mayo, BD Olafson, WA Goddard: DREIDING: a generic force field for molecular simulations, Journal of Physical Chemistry, Volume 94, 1990, pp. 8897-8909
  • DA Tomalia, AM Naylor, WA Goddard: Starburst dendrimers: Molecular-level control of size, shape, surface chemistry, topology, and flexibility from atoms to macroscopic matter, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Volume 29, 1990, pp. 138-175
  • AK Rappe, WA Goddard III: Charge equilibration for molecular dynamics simulations, Journal of Physical Chemistry, Volume 95, 1991, pp. 3358-3363
  • AK Rappé, CJ Casewit, KS Colwell, WA Goddard III, WM Skiff: UFF, a full periodic table force field for molecular mechanics and molecular dynamics simulations, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Volume 114, 1992, pp. 10024-10035
  • Muller, Richard P .; Langlois, Jean-Marc; Ringnalda, Murco N .; Friesner, Richard A .; Goddard, William A .: A generalized direct inversion in the iterative subspace approach for generalized valence bond wave functions, Journal of Chemical Physics, Volume 100, 1994, p. 1226
  • ACT Van Duin, S Dasgupta, F Lorant, WA Goddard: ReaxFF: a reactive force field for hydrocarbons, Journal of Physical Chemistry A, Volume 105, 2001, pp. 9396-9409
  • AI Boukai, Y Bunimovich, J Tahir-Kheli, JK Yu, WA Goddard III, JR Heath: Silicon nanowires as efficient thermoelectric materials, Nature, Volume 451, 2008, p. 168

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Biographical data, publications and academic family tree of William A. Goddard at academictree.org, accessed on February 7, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Goddard, William A.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Goddard, William Andrew III.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American chemist
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH El Centro (California)