CCL: 100 years of computational chemistry?
- From: "Boyd, Donald B." <dboyd_+_iupui.edu>
- Subject: CCL: 100 years of computational chemistry?
- Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2018 19:10:48 +0000
Sent to CCL by: "Boyd, Donald B." [dboyd**iupui.edu]
Many computational chemists consider the founding of the field to be the launch
of the Journal of Computational Chemistry in 1980 by Professor Norman Lou
Allinger, Editor.
He first presented his idea of the need for a new journal to the American
Chemical Society. The bureaucrats there were not interested. So, Professor
Allinger shopped his proposal to the publisher John Wiley & Sons. They could
see the wisdom and foresightedness of his idea and made it a reality with Dr.
Allinger as Editor.
Twenty-five years later the ACS bureaucrats finally woke up and launched the
Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation (JCTC) and the Journal of Chemical
Information and Modeling (JCIM) in 2005 with Professor William Jorgensen as
Editor in Chief.
Prior to Allinger in 1980, people working in the field were generally considered
to be theoretical chemists.
Donald B. Boyd, Ph.D.
Research Professor of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
Indianapolis, Indiana 46202-3274, U.S.A.
Website http://chem.iupui.edu/people/donald-b-boyd
Founder, American Chemical Society's annual symposium on Emerging Technologies
in Computational Chemistry
Cofounder, Reviews in Computational Chemistry, http://chem.iupui.edu/rcc/rcc.html
Cofounder, Gordon Research Conference on Computational Chemistry, http://chem.iupui.edu/rcc/grccc.html
> On Apr 19, 2018, at 2:57 AM, German Ignacio Sastre Navarro
gsastre^_^itq.upv.es <owner-chemistry[]ccl.net> wrote:
> Sent to CCL by: German Ignacio Sastre Navarro [gsastre{}itq.upv.es]
> Dear all,
> What is considered to be the founding (calculation/group/person)
> of computational chemistry?
> Have we already celebrated 100 years?
> Thanks
> Best regards
> German
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