The WATOC Schrödinger medal is awarded each year to one outstanding theoretical and computational chemist.
The medalist is selected by the Board through an electronic ballot.
WATOC members can suggest candidates by email to the President.
Medal winners
2013 |
Stefan Grimme |
For his outstanding work on ab initio and density functional methods for large molecules. |
2012 |
Pekka Pyykkö |
For his pioneering contributions to relativistic quantum chemistry. |
2011 |
Peter Gill |
For his outstanding contributions to intracules, Coulomb operator resolutions, perturbative techniques, and two-electron systems. |
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. |
| 2009 |
Gernot Frenking |
For his outstanding work on computational organometallic chemistry and his fundamental contributions to the understanding of the chemical bond. |
| 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. |
| 2007 |
Sason Shaik |
For his outstanding contributions to the understanding of the chemical bond, reaction mechanisms in organic chemistry, and enzymatic reactivity. |
| 2006 |
Don Truhlar |
For his outstanding contributions to the theory and computation of chemical reaction dynamics in ground and excited states. |
| 2005 |
Michele Parrinello |
For the unification of molecular dynamics with density functional theory. |
| 2004 |
Tom Ziegler |
For outstanding applications of density functional theory, especially to organometallic chemistry. |
| 2003 |
Peter Pulay |
For his development of analytic gradient methods and methods for the evaluation of NMR parameters. |
| 2002 |
Walter Thiel |
For the development of semi-empirical methods and the application to large chemical systems. |
| 2001 |
Ernest Davidson |
For a wealth of pioneering contributions to molecular and quantum mechanics. |
| 2000 |
Axel Becke |
For the development of generalised gradient methods in density functional theory. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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 |
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| 1995 |
Werner Kutzelnigg |
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| 1994 |
Leo Radom |
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| 1993 |
Jan Almlöf |
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| 1992 |
Josef Michl |
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| 1991 |
Keiji Morokuma |
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| 1990 |
Fritz Schaefer |
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