Peter Kollman

Peter Andrew Kollman (July 24, 1944–May 25, 2001^[1]) was a professor of chemistry and pharmaceutical chemistry at the University of California, San Francisco.

Peter Andrew Kollman
Born	(1944-07-24)July 24, 1944 Iowa City, Iowa
Died	May 25, 2001(2001-05-25) (aged 56) San Francisco, California
Alma mater	Grinnell College Princeton University
Scientific career
Fields	Chemistry
Institutions	University of California, San Francisco
Thesis	A Theory of Anomalous Water: A cyclic, symmetrically bonded form of water and related species have a stability comparable to their liquids. (1970)
Doctoral advisor	Leland C. Allen

He is known for his work in computational chemistry, molecular modeling and bioinformatics, especially for his role in the development of the AMBER force field and molecular dynamics software package.^[2]

Biography

Kollman obtained his B.A. from Grinnell College in 1966 and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1967 and 1970 respectively. His PhD supervisor was Leland C. Allen, who had received his PhD in 1956 from MIT supervised by John C. Slater. After a post-doctoral position at the University of Cambridge with David Buckingham, Kollman was hired as an assistant professor by UCSF, where he spent the rest of his career.

In 1995, he was distinguished with the Computers in Chemistry Award from the American Chemical Society.

He was awarded the UCSF medal in 2018.^[3]