A Century of Chemical Dynamics Traced through the Nobel Prizes. 1998: Walter Kohn and John Pople

The 1998 Nobel Prize was awarded to Walter Kohn "for his development of the density-functional theory" and to John Pople "for his development of computational methods in quantum chemistry." They enabled improved energy calculations on molecules and other multi-atom systems. Chemi...

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Published in:Journal of chemical education 2002-11, Vol.79 (11), p.1297
Main Author: Van Houten, Josh
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Chemical reactions
Chemistry
Density functional theory
Equilibrium methods
Kohn, Walter
Nobel prizes
Organic chemistry
Personal profiles
Pople, John A
Quantum chemistry
Scientists
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Summary:The 1998 Nobel Prize was awarded to Walter Kohn "for his development of the density-functional theory" and to John Pople "for his development of computational methods in quantum chemistry." They enabled improved energy calculations on molecules and other multi-atom systems. Chemists have taken advantage of those developments to perform calculations on systems during reactive encounters, thereby obtaining a better understanding of chemical dynamics and allowing for predictions regarding the course of chemical reactions based on the energies of various possible transition states.
ISSN:0021-9584
1938-1328
DOI:10.1021/ed079p1297