William Andrew Goddard III
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Other people". Template:Use mdy dates Script error: No such module "Template wrapper".Script error: No such module "Check for clobbered parameters".
William Andrew Goddard III (born March 29, 1937) is the Charles and Mary Ferkel Professor of Chemistry and Applied Physics, and director of the Materials and Process Simulation Center at the California Institute of Technology.[1][2]
Early life and education
William A. Goddard III was born in El Centro California and lived his early years in farm towns across California (El Centro, Delano, Indio, Lodi, Oildale, MacFarland, Firebaugh, also Yuma AZ), where his dad made the wooden boxes used to ship agricultural products. He always dreamed of living in Los Angeles.[3] Goddard earned a BS in engineering from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1960 and PhD in engineering science with a minor in physics from Caltech in 1964.[4][5] He has four children (Bill, Suzy, Cecilia, Lisa) and has been married for 58 years. Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Career
He joined the chemistry faculty at Caltech in November 1964 where he remains today as a professor and researcher.
After his Ph.D. he remained at the California Institute of Technology as Arthur Amos Noyes Research Fellow (1964–66), Professor of Theoretical Chemistry (1967–78) and Professor of Chemistry & Applied Physics (1978-).[1][6] Goddard has made many contributions to theoretical chemistry, such as the generalized valence bond (GVB) method for ab initio electronic structure calculations and the ReaxFF force field for classical molecular dynamics simulations.
He is a member of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science and the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.[1]
In August 2007, the American Chemical Society at its biannual national convention celebrated Goddard's 70th birthday with a 5-day symposium titled, "Bold predictions in theoretical chemistry."
As of November 2017, Goddard has published 1160 peer-reviewed articles.[7]
References
<templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" />
- ↑ a b c Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Cite error: Script error: No such module "Namespace detect".Script error: No such module "Namespace detect".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
External links
- Pages with script errors
- Pages with reference errors
- 1937 births
- Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
- Living people
- People from El Centro, California
- 21st-century American chemists
- California Institute of Technology alumni
- California Institute of Technology faculty
- Members of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science
- American theoretical chemists
- American computational chemists