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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, particularly theoretical chemistry and computational chemistry.[1] It was originally called the World Association of Theoretical Organic Chemists,[1] but was later renamed the World Association of Theoretically Oriented Chemists,[3] and in 2005 renamed once more to the World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists.[1]
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Conferences
WATOC organizes a triennial world congress with over 1,000 participants in last years.[1][4]
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Awards
The association awards two yearly medals: the Schrödinger Medal to one "outstanding theoretical and computational chemist",[5] and the Dirac Medal to one "outstanding theoretical and computational chemist under the age of 40".[6]
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
- 2008: Kenneth Ruud
- 2009: Jeremy Harvey
- 2010: Daniel Crawford
- 2011: Leticia González
- 2012: Paul Ayers
- 2013: Filipp Furche
- 2014: Denis Jacquemin
- 2015: Edward Valeev
- 2016: Johannes Neugebauer
- 2017: Francesco Evangelista
- 2018: Erin Johnson
- 2019: Satoshi Maeda
- 2020: Alexandre Tkatchenko
- 2021: Edit Matyus
- 2022: Katharina Boguslawski
- 2023: Thomas Jagau
- 2024: Alexander Sokolov
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List of presidents
Presidents of WATOC:[1]
External links
References
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