# Schrödinger Medal

The Schrödinger Medal is an annual award presented by the World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists for "one outstanding theoretical and computational chemist". Prior to 1991, winners were voted on by a committee to multiple chemists.

## Recipients

| Year | Name | Citation |
| 1987 | Enrico Clementi | No reason cited. |
| 1987 | Raymond Daudel | No reason cited. |
| 1987 | Kenichi Fukui | No reason cited. |
| 1987 | William Lipscomb | No reason cited. |
| 1987 | Per-Olov Löwdin | No reason cited. |
| 1987 | Angelo Mangini | No reason cited. |
| 1987 | Yuri Ovchinnikov | No reason cited. |
| 1987 | John Pople | No reason cited. |
| 1987 | Bernard Pullman | No reason cited. |
| 1987 | Paul v. Ragué Schleyer | No reason cited. |
| 1990 | Michael J. S. Dewar | No reason cited. |
| 1990 | Roald Hoffmann | No reason cited. |
| 1990 | Camille Sandorfy | No reason cited. |
| 1990 | Henry F. Schaefer, III | No reason cited. |
| 1991 | Keiji Morokuma | "For his pioneering contributions to the development and application of theoretical and computational chemistry." |
| 1992 | Josef Michl | "For his novel contributions to the application of theoretical and computational chemistry, including organic photochemistry." |
| 1993 | Jan Almlöf | "For his insightful contributions to the development of efficient methods for quantum chemistry calculations, including direct methods." |
| 1994 | Leo Radom | "For his pioneering contributions to the application of computational chemistry." |
| 1995 | Werner Kutzelnigg | "For the development of theoretical methods in the fields of electron correlation, NMR computation, and relativistic quantum chemistry." |
| 1996 | Norman L. Allinger | "For his pioneering contributions to the development and application of molecular mechanics." |
| 1997 | Nicholas C. Handy | "As the leader of the contemporary renaissance in British theoretical chemistry vis his outstanding contributions to the methods of quantum chemistry and density functional theory" |
| 1998 | Kendall N. Houk | "For achievements in the development of theoretical concepts and applications of computational methods to the understanding of the origins of organic reactivity and stereoselectivity" |
| 1999 | Björn O. Roos | "For the development of important new theoretical methods, including the CASPT2 method, and for outstanding chemical applications to the excited electronic states of molecular systems" |
| 2000 | Axel Becke | "For the development of generalised gradient methods in density functional theory" |
| 2001 | Ernest R. Davidson | "For a wealth of pioneering contributions to molecular and quantum mechanics" |
| 2002 | Walter Thiel | "For the development of semi-empirical methods and the application to large chemical systems" |
| 2003 | Peter Pulay | "For his development of analytic gradient methods and methods for the evaluation of NMR parameters" |
| 2004 | Tom Ziegler [de] | "For outstanding applications of density functional theory, especially to organometallic chemistry" |
| 2005 | Michele Parrinello | "For the unification of molecular dynamics with density functional theory" |
| 2006 | Donald Truhlar | "For his outstanding contributions to the theory and computation of chemical reaction dynamics in ground and excited states" |
| 2007 | Sason Shaik | "For his outstanding contributions to the understanding of the chemical bond, reaction mechanisms in organic chemistry, and enzymatic reactivity" |
| 2008 | Rodney J. Bartlett | "For his outstanding work on the systematic development of correlated wave function methods, especially many-body perturbation theory and coupled cluster theory" |
| 2009 | Gernot Frenking | "For his outstanding work on computational organometallic chemistry and his fundamental contributions to the understanding of the chemical bond" |
| 2010 | Evert Jan Baerends | "For his pioneering contributions to the development of computational density functional methods and his fundamental contributions to density functional theory and density matrix theory" |
| 2011 | Peter Gill | "For his outstanding contributions to intracules, Coulomb operator resolutions, perturbative techniques, and two-electron systems" |
| 2012 | Pekka Pyykkö | "For his pioneering contributions to relativistic quantum chemistry" |
| 2013 | Stefan Grimme | "For his outstanding work on ab initio and density functional methods for large molecules" |
| 2014 | Mark Gordon | "For his contributions to the development and implementation of ab initio electronic structure methods and their application to complex systems" |
| 2015 | Helmut Schwarz | "For the successful combination of seminal experimental and computational research on mass spectrometry and catalysis" |
| 2016 | Hiroshi Nakatsuji | "For the discovery and development of general methods of solving the Schrödinger equation of atoms and molecules" |
| 2017 | Pavel Hobza | "For his outstanding work on noncovalent interactions" |
| 2018 | Klaus Ruedenberg | "For advancing ab initio quantum chemistry through seminal innovations, pioneering the deduction of bonding concepts from rigorous wave mechanical analyses and, notably, identifying the fundamental physical origin of covalent bonding" |
| 2019 | Joachim Sauer | "For his outstanding contributions to the quantum chemistry of solid materials and their successful application to heterogeneous catalysis" |
| 2020 | Martin Head-Gordon | "For his contributions to density functional theory, wave function methods, and energy decomposition analysis." |
| 2021 | Yitzhak Apeloig | "For his pioneering combined computational-experimental seminal contributions to silicon chemistry and mechanisms in organic chemistry" |
| 2022 | Frank Neese | "For his pioneering development of new quantum chemical methods for theoretical spectroscopy and local electron correlation, and their applications to real-life chemical problems" |