The World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists (WATOC) is a scholarly association founded in 1982 "in order to encourage the development and application of theoretical methods" in
chemistry
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, particularly
theoretical chemistry
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and
computational chemistry
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.
It was originally called the World Association of Theoretical Organic Chemists,
but was later renamed the World Association of Theoretically Oriented Chemists,
and in 2005 renamed once more to the World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists.
Conferences
WATOC organizes a triennial world congress with over 1,000 participants in last years.
Awards
The association awards two yearly medals: the Schrödinger Medal to one "outstanding
theoretical
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and
computational
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Mechanical or electronic devices (or, historic ...
chemist",
and the Dirac Medal to one "outstanding theoretical and computational chemist under the age of 40".
Recipients of the Dirac Medal
Source
WATOC
* 1998:
Timothy J. Lee
* 1999:
Peter M. W. Gill
* 2000:
Jiali Gao
* 2001:
Martin Kaupp
* 2002:
Jerzy Cioslowski
* 2003:
Peter Schreiner
* 2004:
Jan Martin
* 2005:
Ursula Röthlisberger
* 2006:
Lucas Visscher
* 2007:
Anna Krylov
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* 2008:
Kenneth Ruud
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He is a professor of chemistry at the University of Tromsø. He is author or coauthor of more than 150 scientific articles and director of the Centre for Theoretical and Computational ...
* 2009:
Jeremy Harvey
* 2010:
Daniel Crawford
* 2011:
Leticia González
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Biography
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* 2012:
Paul Ayers
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* 2013:
Filipp Furche
* 2014:
Denis Jacquemin
* 2015:
Edward Valeev
* 2016:
Johannes Neugebauer
* 2017:
Francesco Evangelista
* 2018:
Erin Johnson
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Education and early career
Johnson is from Ottawa, Canada. ...
* 2019:
Satoshi Maeda
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Written forms
*, "intelligent, philosophy, clear"
*, "bodhi, enlightenment, apprehension"
*, "quick, sharp"
*, "knowledge, wisdom"
*, "intelligent, clever, bright"
*, "bright, intelligent"
*, "te ...
* 2020:
Alexandre Tkatchenko
* 2021:
Edit Matyus
* 2022:
Katharina Boguslawski
* 2023:
Thomas Jagau
* 2024:
Alexander Sokolov
List of presidents
Presidents of WATOC:
External links
WATOC home page
References
[For instance, in 2005 it was called "World Association of Theoretically Oriented Chemists" as can be seen in the poster for WATOC-2005 congress: ]
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Chemistry societies
Scientific organizations established in 1982