Ahmed Zewail
Schatz is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (1987), and member of the National Academy of Sciences, of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science, and many other such bodies. He authored over 900 scientific papers, and co-authored two books with his colleague Mark A. Ratner: "Introduction to Quantum Mechanics in Chemistry" and "Quantum Mechanics in Chemistry." Schatz has won the Ahmed Zewail Prize award of the journal Chemical Physics Letters for "outstanding contributions to the theory and understanding of gas-phase reaction dynamics, plasmonics, and nanostructured materials". The biennial Prize was developed by Elsevier to honor Nobel Laureate Ahmed Zewail, who was a longtime editor of Chemical Physics Letters. Schatz is the 7th winner of this international award.