Donald R. Baer [2014]
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Citation: For research and capability development that significantly advanced molecular-level understanding of environmentally important interfacial processes relevant to nanoparticle reactivity, mineral dissolution, and stress corrosion cracking.
Nominated by: DCP
Guanhua Chen [2014]
University of Hong Kong
Citation: For his singular contributions in the development of quantum mechanical simulation methods for complex electronic systems, including O(N) methods for excited states and the multiscale QM/EM method for emerging electronics.
Nominated by: DCP
Bret E. Jackson [2014]
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Citation: For outstanding contributions to the elucidation of gas-surface dynamics, including the development of quantum methods for describing reactive scattering and particle-substrate energy transfer, and studies of sticking, dissociative chemisorption and Eley-Rideal reactions.
Nominated by: DCP
Andrew H. Marcus [2014]
University of Oregon
Citation: For his contribution to the development of linear and nonlinear fluorescence correlation spectroscopies, and their application to the study of the structure and dynamics of biochemical systems.
Nominated by: DCP
Spiridoula C. Matsika [2014]
Temple University
Citation: For her contributions to understanding the dynamics of excited molecules around conical intersections and method development to calculate such at the highest levels of theory.
Nominated by: DCP
Christopher J. Mundy [2014]
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Citation: For pioneering applications of Kohn-Sham density functional theory to further our understanding of complex processes that occur at the air-water interface.
Nominated by: DCP
Farid Salama [2014]
NASA Ames Research Center
Citation: For the pioneering contributions in the development and application of spectroscopic tools for the laboratory study of interstellar and planetary molecules in astrophysically relevant environments.
Nominated by: DCP
Grzehorz Szamel [2014]
Colorado State University
Citation: For his contributions to the understanding of glassy dynamics through computer simulations and fundamental theory.
Nominated by: DCP
Yoshitaka Tanimura [2014]
Kyoto University
Citation: For his seminal contributions to the theoretical and computational studies of quantum dissipative dynamics using a hierarchial non-Markovian non-perturbative approach and for pioneering the field of coherent multi-dimensional optical spectroscopy of electronic and nuclear motions in molecules.
Nominated by: DCP
Sergei Tretiak [2014]
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Citation: For seminal contributions to the theoretical chemistry of excited state dynamics in nanoscale materials and nonlinear optical response of molecular systems.
Nominated by: DCP