World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists
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Conferences
WATOC organizes a triennial world congress with over 1,000 participants in last years.[1][3]
Awards
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Recipients of the Dirac Medal
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- 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
List of presidents
Presidents of WATOC:[1]
| # | Name | First year | Last year | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Imre Csizmadia, taken in 1987 at the WATOC conference | Imre Gyula Csizmadia | 1987 | 1990 |
| 2 | Paul Schleyer taken in 1987 | Paul von Rague Schleyer | 1990 | 1996 |
| 3 | File:H F Schafer.jpg | Henry F. Schaefer, III | 1996 | 2005 |
| 4 | Leo Radom | Leo Radom | 2005 | 2011 |
| 5 | File:WalterThiel.jpg | Walter Thiel | 2011 | 2017 |
| 6 | File:Peter Gill.jpg | Peter Gill | 2017 | 2025 |
External links
References
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