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National Science and Technology
MedalsThe National Medal of Science and the National
Medal for Technology and Innovation are awarded
by the President of the United States of America
for outstanding contributions to the sciences or totechnological innovation. We mention three of the2015 awardees here.
A. Paul Alivisatos (University of California,Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; National Medal of Science) was featured
here when he won the Wolf Prize in Chemistry.[1a]He has recently reported in Angewandte Chemie on
dual metal–dual semiconductor nanostructures.[1b]Geraldine L. Richmond (University of Oregon;National Medal of Science) was featured here when
she won the Pittsburgh Spectroscopy Award.[2]Joseph M. DeSimone (University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill; National Medal of Technology and Innovation) was featured here when hejoined the International Advisory Board of Angewandte Chemie.[3a] He has recently reported inAdvanced Healthcare Materials on particles for thelocal delivery of proteins.[3b]WATOC Schrçdinger and Dirac Medals
The World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists (WATOC) has recently honored
two outstanding chemists working in the field.
Hiroshi Nakatsuji (Quantum ChemistryResearch Institute, Kyoto) is the recipient of theWATOC Schrçdinger Medal, which is presented tooutstanding theoretical and computational chemists. Nakatsuji studied at Kyoto University, wherehe completed his PhD (supervised by TeijiroYonezawa) in 1971. He subsequently remained at
Kyoto University, with periods as a research
associate with Jeremy I. Musher at Yeshiva University, New York (1973–1974) and Robert G. Parrat the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill(1974–1975), and was made emeritus professor in2007. He has been Director of the Quantum
Chemistry Research Institute since 2006. NakatsujiÏs research involves the construction of highly
predictive and widely applicable theories andconcepts for chemistry and physics, including
predictive quantum chemistry. He was honored
for his “development of general methods of solving
the Schrçdinger equation of atoms and molecules”.
He has reported in ChemPhysChem on color
tuning in photofunctional proteins,[4a] and is coauthor of a report in Chemistry—A EuropeanAngew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2016, 55, 4861

Journal on electronic transitions in conformationally controlled tetrasilanes.[4b]Johannes Neugebauer (University of Mînster)is the winner of the Dirac Medal, which is given tooutstanding researchers under the age of 40.
Neugebauer studied at Bielefeld University, andcarried out his PhD (awarded in 2003) with Bernd
Artur Heß at the Friedrich-Alexander-UniversittErlangen-Nîrnberg. From 2003–2006, he was apostdoctoral researcher with Evert Jan Baerends at
the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and from 2006–2008, he was a junior research group leader at theETH Zîrich, where he completed his habilitation(mentored by Markus Reiher) in 2009. From 2009–2011, he was associate professor at Leiden University, and from 2011–2012, he was professor at theTechnische Universitt Braunschweig. He wasmade Professor of Theoretical Organic Chemistryat the University of Mînster in 2013. Neugebauer
and his group are interested in the development ofdensity functional theory based subsystem andembedding methods for studying the collective
properties of molecular assemblies in complex
environments, including light harvesting andenergy transport in photosynthetic systems as well
as excited electronic states and spectroscopic
properties of molecules in solvents or cofactors inproteins. He has reported in ChemPhysChem on
wavefunction in density functional theory embedding calculations.[5a] He was also one of the Guest
Editors of a special issue of ChemPhysChem oncomputational chemistry of complex andbiosystems.[5b]Angewandte

ChemieAwarded …

[1] a) Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2012, 51, 4779; Angew.
Chem. 2012, 124, 4860; b) L. Amirav, F. Oba, S. Aloni,A. P. Alivisatos, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2015, 54, 7007;
Angew. Chem. 2015, 127, 7113.
[2] Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2014, 53, 5003; Angew. Chem.
2014, 126, 5103.
[3] Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2014, 53, 38; Angew. Chem.
2014, 126, 40; b) K. Khodabandehlou, S. Tian, J. C.
Luft, S. A. Khan, J. M. DeSimone, Adv. Healthcare
Mater. 2016, 5, 653.
[4] a) J. Hasegawa, K. J. Fujimoto, H. Nakatsuji, ChemPhysChem 2011, 12, 3106; b) H. Tsuji, H. A. Fogarty,
M. Ehara, R. Fukuda, D. L. Casher, K. Tamao, H.
Nakatsuji, J. Michl, Chem. Eur. J. 2014, 20, 9431.
[5] a) C. Daday, C. Kçnig, J. Neugebauer, C. Filippi,
ChemPhysChem 2014, 15, 3205; b) see the Editorial
by A. Dreuw, G. J. O. Beran, J. Neugebauer, ChemPhysChem 2014, 15, 3139.

International Edition: DOI: 10.1002/anie.201601874
German Edition:
DOI: 10.1002/ange.201601874

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