Henry Eyring was a Mexico-born United States theoretical chemist whose primary contribution was in the study of chemical reaction rates and intermediates. Eyring developed the Absolute Rate Theory or Transition state theory of chemical reactions,connecting the fields of chemistry and physics through atomic theory,quantum theory,and statistical mechanics.
The Weizmann Institute of Science is a public research university in Rehovot,Israel,established in 1934,14 years before the State of Israel. It differs from other Israeli universities in that it offers postgraduate-only degrees in the natural and exact sciences.
Kenneth Sanborn Pitzer was an American physical and theoretical chemist,educator,and university president. He was described as "one of the most influential physical chemists of his era" whose work "spanned almost all of the important fields of physical chemistry:thermodynamics,statistical mechanics,molecular structure,quantum mechanics,spectroscopy,chemical bonding,relativistic chemical effects,properties of concentrated aqueous salt solutions,kinetics,and conformational analysis."
Stuart Alan Rice is an American theoretical chemist and physical chemist. He is well known as a theoretical chemist who also does experimental research,having spent much of his career working in multiple areas of physical chemistry. He is currently the Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago. During his tenure at the University of Chicago,Rice has trained more than 100 Ph.D. students and postdoctoral researchers. He received the National Medal of Science in 1999.
Jacob Klein,is the Herman Mark Professor of Soft Matter Physics at the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot,Israel. He is well known for his work in soft condensed matter,polymer science and surface science.
Henry Frederick "Fritz" Schaefer III is a computational and theoretical chemist. He is one of the most highly cited chemists in the world,with a Thomson Reuters H-Index of 121 as of 2020. He is the Graham Perdue Professor of Chemistry and Director of the Center for Computational Chemistry at the University of Georgia. Before becoming professor at Georgia he was professor at University of California,Berkeley and in 2004,he became Professor of Chemistry Emeritus,at UC Berkeley
Jack David Dunitz FRS was a British chemist and widely known chemical crystallographer. He was Professor of Chemical Crystallography at the ETH Zurich from 1957 until his official retirement in 1990. He held Visiting Professorships in the United States,Israel,Japan,Canada,Spain and the United Kingdom.
John Ross was a scientist in physical chemistry and the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Professor of Chemistry at Stanford University.
Alexander Pines is an American chemist. He is the Glenn T. Seaborg Professor Emeritus,University of California,Berkeley,Chancellor's Professor Emeritus and Professor of the Graduate School,University of California,Berkeley,and a member of the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3) and the Department of Bioengineering. He was born in 1945,grew up in Bulawayo in Southern Rhodesia and studied undergraduate mathematics and chemistry in Israel at Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Coming to the United States in 1968,Pines obtained his Ph.D. in chemical physics at M.I.T. in 1972 and joined the UC Berkeley faculty later that year.
Sir David Charles Clary,FRS is a British theoretical chemist. He was president of Magdalen College,Oxford,from 2005 to 2020. He was the first chief scientific adviser to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office from 2009 to 2013. He is a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford.
Frank Albert Cotton FRS was an American chemist. He was the W.T. Doherty-Welch Foundation Chair and Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at Texas A&M University. He authored over 1600 scientific articles. Cotton was recognized for his research on the chemistry of the transition metals.
James Andrew McCammon is an American physical chemist known for his application of principles and methods from theoretical and computational chemistry to biological systems. A professor at the University of California,San Diego,McCammon's research focuses on the theoretical aspects of biomolecular and cellular activity. In 2011 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
Harry George Drickamer,born Harold George Weidenthal,was a pioneer experimentalist in high-pressure studies of condensed matter. His work generally concerned understanding the electronic properties of matter.
Joshua Jortner is an Israeli physical chemist. He is a professor emeritus at the School of Chemistry,The Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences,Tel Aviv University in Tel Aviv,Israel.
Peter Guy Wolynes is an American theoretical chemist and physicist. Since 2011 he has been a Bullard-Welch Foundation Professor of Science and professor of chemistry at Rice University. He is widely recognized for his significant contributions to the theories of protein folding,glasses,and gene networks. Previously he was James R. Eiszner Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,and the Francis H.C. Crick Chair of Physical Sciences at the University of California,San Diego.
Jack H. Freed is an American chemist known for his pioneering work in electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy. He is the Frank and Robert Laughlin Professor of Physical Chemistry,emeritus,at Cornell University in Ithaca,New York.
Judith P. Klinman is an American chemist,biochemist,and molecular biologist known for her work on enzyme catalysis. She became the first female professor in the physical sciences at the University of California,Berkeley in 1978,where she is now Professor of the Graduate School and Chancellor's Professor. In 2012,she was awarded the National Medal of Science by President Barack Obama. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences,American Academy of Arts and Sciences,American Association for the Advancement of Science,and the American Philosophical Society.
David Ginsburg (1920–1988) was an Israeli research pioneer in the synthetic organic chemistry industry. He was born in New York City. At the age of 13 he immigrated to mandatory Palestine.
Biman Bagchi is an Indian scientist currently serving as a SERB-DST National Science Chair Professor and Honorary Professor at the Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit of the Indian Institute of Science. He is a theoretical physical chemist and biophysicist known for his research in the area of statistical mechanics;particularly in the study of phase transition and nucleation,solvation dynamics,mode-coupling theory of electrolyte transport,dynamics of biological macromolecules,protein folding,enzyme kinetics,supercooled liquids and protein hydration layer. He is an elected fellow of the Indian National Science Academy,the Indian Academy of Sciences,The World Academy of Sciences and an International honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Along with several scientific articles,he has authored three books,(i) Molecular Relaxation in Liquids,(ii) Water in Biological and Chemical Processes:From Structure and Dynamics to Function,and (iii) Statistical Mechanics for Chemistry and Materials Science.
David Joshua Tannor is a theoretical chemist,who is the Hermann Mayer Professorial Chair in the department of chemical physics at the Weizmann Institute of Science.
