The Schrödinger Medal is an annual award presented by the World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists for "one outstanding theoretical and computational chemist". Prior to 1991, winners were voted on by a committee to multiple chemists.[1]

Recipients

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Year Name Citation
1987 Enrico Clementi No reason cited.
1987 Raymond Daudel No reason cited.
1987   Kenichi Fukui No reason cited.
1987   William Lipscomb No reason cited.
1987 Per-Olov Löwdin No reason cited.
1987 Angelo Mangini No reason cited.
1987 Yuri Ovchinnikov No reason cited.
1987   John Pople No reason cited.
1987   Bernard Pullman No reason cited.
1987   Paul v. Ragué Schleyer No reason cited.
1990 Michael J. S. Dewar No reason cited.
1990   Roald Hoffmann No reason cited.
1990   Camille Sandorfy No reason cited.
1990   Henry F. Schaefer, III No reason cited.
1991   Keiji Morokuma "For his pioneering contributions to the development and application of theoretical and computational chemistry."
1992   Josef Michl "For his novel contributions to the application of theoretical and computational chemistry, including organic photochemistry."
1993 Jan Almlöf "For his insightful contributions to the development of efficient methods for quantum chemistry calculations, including direct methods."
1994   Leo Radom "For his pioneering contributions to the application of computational chemistry."
1995   Werner Kutzelnigg "For the development of theoretical methods in the fields of electron correlation, NMR computation, and relativistic quantum chemistry."
1996 Norman L. Allinger "For his pioneering contributions to the development and application of molecular mechanics."
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"
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"
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"
2000 Axel Becke "For the development of generalised gradient methods in density functional theory"
2001 Ernest R. Davidson "For a wealth of pioneering contributions to molecular and quantum mechanics"
2002   Walter Thiel "For the development of semi-empirical methods and the application to large chemical systems"
2003 Peter Pulay "For his development of analytic gradient methods and methods for the evaluation of NMR parameters"
2004 Tom Ziegler [de] "For outstanding applications of density functional theory, especially to organometallic chemistry"
2005   Michele Parrinello "For the unification of molecular dynamics with density functional theory"
2006   Donald Truhlar "For his outstanding contributions to the theory and computation of chemical reaction dynamics in ground and excited states"
2007 Sason Shaik "For his outstanding contributions to the understanding of the chemical bond, reaction mechanisms in organic chemistry, and enzymatic reactivity"
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"
2009 Gernot Frenking "For his outstanding work on computational organometallic chemistry and his fundamental contributions to the understanding of the chemical bond"
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"
2011   Peter Gill "For his outstanding contributions to intracules, Coulomb operator resolutions, perturbative techniques, and two-electron systems"
2012   Pekka Pyykkö "For his pioneering contributions to relativistic quantum chemistry"
2013 Stefan Grimme "For his outstanding work on ab initio and density functional methods for large molecules"
2014 Mark Gordon "For his contributions to the development and implementation of ab initio electronic structure methods and their application to complex systems"
2015 Helmut Schwarz "For the successful combination of seminal experimental and computational research on mass spectrometry and catalysis"
2016 Hiroshi Nakatsuji "For the discovery and development of general methods of solving the Schrödinger equation of atoms and molecules"
2017 Pavel Hobza[2] "For his outstanding work on noncovalent interactions"
2018 Klaus Ruedenberg "For advancing ab initio quantum chemistry through seminal innovations, pioneering the deduction of bonding concepts from rigorous wave mechanical analyses and, notably, identifying the fundamental physical origin of covalent bonding"
2019   Joachim Sauer "For his outstanding contributions to the quantum chemistry of solid materials and their successful application to heterogeneous catalysis"
2020 Martin Head-Gordon "For his contributions to density functional theory, wave function methods, and energy decomposition analysis."
2021   Yitzhak Apeloig[3] "For his pioneering combined computational-experimental seminal contributions to silicon chemistry and mechanisms in organic chemistry"
2022 Frank Neese[4] "For his pioneering development of new quantum chemical methods for theoretical spectroscopy and local electron correlation, and their applications to real-life chemical problems"

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "WATOC – Schroedinger". World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists. 2015. Retrieved 23 March 2015.
  2. ^ "Prof. Pavel Hobza receives Schrödinger medal for 2017". IOCB Prague. 1 September 2017. Retrieved 12 June 2022.
  3. ^ "The Schrödinger Medal Will be Awarded to Technion Distinguished Professor Yitzhak Apeloig". American Technion Society. 11 January 2021. Retrieved 12 June 2022.
  4. ^ "Great honor for theoretical chemists: Kohlenforscher Frank Neese receives the Schrödinger medal of the WATOC". Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung. 10 February 2022. Retrieved 12 June 2022.
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