Schrödinger Medal

The Schrödinger Medal is an annual award presented by the World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists for "one outstanding theoretical and computational chemist".[1]

Recipients

# Year Name Citation
1 1990 Henry F. Schaefer, III
2 1991 Keiji Morokuma
3 1992 Josef Michl
4 1993 Jan Almlöf
5 1994 Leo Radom
6 1995 Werner Kutzelnigg
7 1996 Norman L. Allinger
8 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"
9 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"
10 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"
11 2000 Axel Becke "For the development of generalised gradient methods in density functional theory"
12 2001 Ernest R. Davidson "For a wealth of pioneering contributions to molecular and quantum mechanics"
13 2002 Walter Thiel "For the development of semi-empirical methods and the application to large chemical systems"
14 2003 Peter Pulay "For his development of analytic gradient methods and methods for the evaluation of NMR parameters"
15 2004 Tom Ziegler "For outstanding applications of density functional theory, especially to organometallic chemistry"
16 2005 Michele Parrinello "For the unification of molecular dynamics with density functional theory"
17 2006 Donald Truhlar "For his outstanding contributions to the theory and computation of chemical reaction dynamics in ground and excited states"
18 2007 Sason Shaik "For his outstanding contributions to the understanding of the chemical bond, reaction mechanisms in organic chemistry, and enzymatic reactivity"
19 2008 Rodney J. Bartlett "For his outstanding work on the systematic development of correlated wave function methods, especially many-body perturbation theory and coupled cluster theory"
20 2009 Gernot Frenking "For his outstanding work on computational organometallic chemistry and his fundamental contributions to the understanding of the chemical bond"
21 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"
22 2011 Peter Gill "For his outstanding contributions to intracules, Coulomb operator resolutions, perturbative techniques, and two-electron systems"
23 2012 Pekka Pyykkö "For his pioneering contributions to relativistic quantum chemistry"
24 2013 Stefan Grimme "For his outstanding work on ab initio and density functional methods for large molecules"
25 2014 Mark Gordon "For his contributions to the development and implementation of ab initio electronic structure methods and their application to complex systems"
26 2015 Helmut Schwarz "For the successful combination of seminal experimental and computational research on mass spectrometry and catalysis"

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References

  1. "WATOC - Schroedinger". World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists. 2015. Retrieved 23 March 2015.
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