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World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists

The World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists (WATOC) is a scholarly association founded in 1982 "in order to encourage the development and application of theoretical methods" in chemistry, particularly theoretical chemistry and computational chemistry.[1] It was originally called the World Association of Theoretical Organic Chemists,[1] but was later renamed the World Association of Theoretically Oriented Chemists,[3] and in 2005 renamed once more to the World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists.[1]

World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists
AbbreviationWATOC
Formation1982[1]
Purposepromoting the field of theoretical and computational chemistry[2]
President
Peter Gill
Websitewatoc.net

Conferences

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WATOC organizes a triennial world congress with over 1,000 participants in last years.[1][4]

# Name Date Year City Country Organizer
1 WATOC-1987 August 12–18 1987   Budapest Hungary Imre Csizmadia
2 WATOC-1990 July 8–14 1990   Toronto Canada Imre Csizmadia
3 WATOC-1993 July 18–25 1993   Toyohashi Japan Keiji Morokuma
4 WATOC-1996 July 7–12 1996   Jerusalem Israel Amiram Goldblum
5 WATOC-1999 August 1–6 1999   London UK Mike Robb
Henry Rzepa
6 WATOC-2002 August 6–9 2002   Lugano Switzerland Hans-Peter Lüthi
7 WATOC-2005 January 16–21 2005   Cape Town South Africa Kevin Naidoo
8 WATOC-2008 September 14–19 2008   Sydney Australia Leo Radom
9 WATOC-2011 July 17–22 2011   Santiago de Compostela Spain Manuel Yáñez
Otilia Mó
10 WATOC-2014 October 5–10 2014   Santiago de Chile Chile Alejandro Toro-Labbé
11 WATOC-2017 August 27 – September 1 2017   Munich Germany Christian Ochsenfeld
12 WATOC-2020 August 16 – 21 2020   Vancouver Canada Russell J. Boyd
13 WATOC-2025 June 22 – 27 2025   Oslo Norway Trygve Helgaker

Awards

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Main article: Schrödinger Medal

The association awards two yearly medals: the Schrödinger Medal to one "outstanding theoretical and computational chemist",[5] and the Dirac Medal to one "outstanding theoretical and computational chemist under the age of 40".[6]

Recipients of the Dirac Medal

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For other prizes named after Paul Dirac, see Dirac Medal.

Source: WATOC

List of presidents

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Presidents of WATOC:[1]

# Name First year Last year
1   Imre Gyula Csizmadia 1987 1990
2   Paul von Rague Schleyer 1990 1996
3   Henry F. Schaefer, III 1996 2005
4   Leo Radom 2005 2011
5   Walter Thiel 2011 2017
6   Peter Gill 2017 2025
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References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f "WATOC - History". World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists. 2015. Retrieved 22 March 2015.
  2. ^ "WATOC - Home". World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists. 2015. Retrieved 22 March 2015.
  3. ^ For instance, in 2005 it was called "World Association of Theoretically Oriented Chemists" as can be seen in the poster for WATOC-2005 congress: "WATOC-2005. Modelling Structure and Reactivity. 7th World Congress of the World Association of Theoretically Oriented Chemists" (PDF). World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists. 2015. Retrieved 22 March 2015.
  4. ^ "WATOC - Congress". World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists. 2015. Retrieved 22 March 2015.
  5. ^ "WATOC - Schroedinger". World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists. 2015. Retrieved 22 March 2015.
  6. ^ "Dirac - medal". World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists. 2015. Retrieved 22 March 2015.
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