Daan Frenkel
{{Short description|Dutch physicist (born 1948)}}
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| caption = Frenkel in 2000
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| birth_date = {{birth year and age |1948}}
| birth_place = Amsterdam
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| workplaces = University of Cambridge
Royal Dutch Shell
University of Utrecht
University of California, Los Angeles
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| alma_mater = University of Amsterdam (PhD)
| thesis_title = Rotational relaxation of linear molecules in dense noble gases
| thesis_url = https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/61886133
| thesis_year = 1977
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| doctoral_students = Marjolein Dijkstra
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| known_for = Noro–Frenkel law of corresponding states
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| awards = Spinoza Prize (2000)
ForMemRS (2006)
Aneesur Rahman Prize (2007)
Fritz London Memorial Lecture (2011)
Boltzmann Medal (2016){{cite journal|last1=Frenkel|first1=Daan|last2=Louët|first2=Sabine|title=Interview with Daan Frenkel, Boltzmann Medallist 2016|journal=The European Physical Journal E|volume=39|issue=6|pages=68|year=2016|issn=1292-8941|doi=10.1140/epje/i2016-16068-7|pmid=27349557|s2cid=45142053}}
Lorentz Medal (2022)
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| website = {{URL|http://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/staff/df.html}}
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}}Daan Frenkel {{post-nominals|country=GBR|ForMemRS|MAE}}{{cite web|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20151117111135/https://royalsociety.org/people/daan-frenkel-11464/|archivedate=2015-11-17|url=https://royalsociety.org/people/daan-frenkel-11464/|author=Anon|year=2006|publisher=Royal Society|location=London|title=Professor Daan Frenkel ForMemRS}} One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where: {{quote|“All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.” --{{cite web |url=https://royalsociety.org/about-us/terms-conditions-policies/ |title=Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies |accessdate=2016-03-09 |url-status=bot: unknown |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150925220834/https://royalsociety.org/about-us/terms-conditions-policies/ |archivedate=September 25, 2015 }}}} (born 1948, Amsterdam) is a Dutch computational physicist in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge.http://www-frenkel.ch.cam.ac.uk Daan Frenkel's research group's homepage{{cite journal|last1=Martiniani|first1=Stefano|last2=Schrenk|first2=K. Julian|last3=Stevenson|first3=Jacob D.|last4=Wales|first4=David J.|authorlink4=David J. Wales|last5=Frenkel|authorlink5=Daan Frenkel|first5=Daan|title=Turning intractable counting into sampling: Computing the configurational entropy of three-dimensional jammed packings|journal=Physical Review E |volume=93| issue=1 |pages=012906|year=2016 |doi= 10.1103/PhysRevE.93.012906|pmid=26871142|arxiv=1509.03964|bibcode=2016PhRvE..93a2906M|s2cid=19878643}}{{Cite journal|last1=Evans|first1=Robert|last2=Galindo|first2=Amparo|last3=Jackson|first3=George|last4=Lynden-Bell|first4=Ruth|last5=Rotenberg|first5=Benjamin|date=2018|title=Daan Frenkel — An entropic career|journal=Molecular Physics|language=en|volume=116|issue=21–22|pages=2737–2741|doi=10.1080/00268976.2018.1514685|issn=0026-8976|url=https://hal.sorbonne-universite.fr/hal-01924662/file/Evans%20et%20al.%20-%202018%20-%20Daan%20Frenkel%20%E2%80%94%20An%20entropic%20career.pdf|bibcode=2018MolPh.116.2737E|hdl=10044/1/67645|s2cid=105741733|hdl-access=free}}{{cite journal|last1=Samoray|first1=Chris|title=QnAs with Daan Frenkel|journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|volume=114|issue=33|year=2017|pages=8667–8668|issn=0027-8424|doi=10.1073/pnas.1712622114|pmid=28760950 |pmc=5565480 |bibcode=2017PNAS..114.8667S |doi-access=free}}
Education
Frenkel completed his PhD at the University of Amsterdam in 1977 in experimental physical chemistry.{{cite web |title= Daniel Frenkel - Biography |url= http://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Frenkel_Daniel/CV|accessdate=30 January 2017 |date= 19 October 2013 |author= Kaiser Dana |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20170130163651/http://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Frenkel_Daniel/CV |archivedate= 30 January 2017 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web|title=Professor Daan Frenkel ForMemRS |url= http://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/person/df246|accessdate=30 January 2017 |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20161120013917/http://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/person/df246 |archivedate=20 November 2016 |url-status=dead }}
Career and research
Frenkel worked as postdoctoral research fellow in the Chemistry and Biochemistry Department at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA),{{fact|date=January 2019}} subsequently at Shell and at the University of Utrecht.
Between 1987 and 2007, Frenkel carried out his research at the FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics (AMOLF) in Amsterdam where he has been employed since 1987. In the same period, he was appointed (part-time) professor at the Universities of Utrecht and Amsterdam. From 2011 to 2015 he was Head of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge. Since 2007 he is a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge.{{cite journal|last1=Allen|first1=Rosalind J.|authorlink1=Rosalind J. Allen|last2=Frenkel|first2=Daan|last3=ten Wolde|first3=Pieter Rein|title=Simulating rare events in equilibrium or nonequilibrium stochastic systems|journal=The Journal of Chemical Physics|volume=124|issue=2|year=2006|pages=024102|issn=0021-9606|doi=10.1063/1.2140273|pmid= 16422566|arxiv=cond-mat/0509499|bibcode=2006JChPh.124b4102A|s2cid=9409013}} {{closed access}}
Frenkel has co-authored together with Berend Smit Understanding Molecular Simulation, which has grown into a handbook used worldwide{{fact|date=January 2019}} by aspiring computational physicists.{{Cite book|url=https://www.elsevier.com/books/understanding-molecular-simulation/frenkel/978-0-12-267351-1|title=Understanding Molecular Simulation - 2nd Edition|last=Elsevier|website=elsevier.com|date=7 November 2001|publisher=Elsevier Science |language=en|access-date=2018-10-31|isbn=978-0-12-267351-1}}
=Awards and honours=
In 2000 he was one of three winners of the Dutch Spinoza Prize.{{cite web |author= |url=http://www.nwo.nl/en/research-and-results/programmes/spinoza+prize/spinoza+laureates/overview+by+year/2000 |title=NWO Spinoza Prize 2000 |website=nwo.nl |publisher=Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research |date=11 September 2014 |accessdate=30 January 2016 |archive-date=16 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160316013507/http://www.nwo.nl/en/research-and-results/programmes/spinoza+prize/spinoza+laureates/overview+by+year/2000 |url-status=dead }} In 2008 he was appointed a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. He is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (1998),{{cite web |author= |url=https://www.knaw.nl/nl/leden/leden/4122 |title=Daan Frenkel |language=Dutch |publisher=Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences |date= |accessdate=14 July 2015 |archive-date=15 July 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150715090129/https://www.knaw.nl/nl/leden/leden/4122 |url-status=dead }} the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2008), and The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) in 2012.{{fact|date=January 2019}} He was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 2006.
In 2016 he was elected as a foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciences.{{citation|url=http://www.nasonline.org/news-and-multimedia/news/may-3-2016-NAS-Election.html|title=National Academy of Sciences Members and Foreign Associates Elected|department=News from the National Academy of Sciences|publisher=National Academy of Sciences|date=May 3, 2016|accessdate=2016-05-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160506052951/http://www.nasonline.org/news-and-multimedia/news/may-3-2016-NAS-Election.html|archive-date=May 6, 2016|url-status=dead}}. In 2007 he received the Aneesur Rahman Prize from the American Physical Society (APS){{Cite web|url=https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/prizerecipient.cfm?last_nm=Frenkel&first_nm=Daniel&year=2007|title=2007 Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational Physics|access-date=2018-10-31}} and the Berni J Alder CECAM prize.{{Cite web|url=https://www.cecam.org/bja_prize.html|title=Berni J. Alder CECAM Prize|website=cecam.org|access-date=2018-10-31|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181031173901/https://www.cecam.org/bja_prize.html|archive-date=2018-10-31|url-status=dead}} In 2010 he received the Soft Matter and Biophysical Chemistry Award from the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), UK.{{Cite web|url=http://www.rsc.org/ScienceAndTechnology/Awards/SoftMatterBiophysicalChemistryAward/2010Winner.asp|title=2010 Winner Soft Matter and Biophysical Chemistry Award- Daan Frenkel|website=rsc.org|language=en|access-date=2018-10-31}}
He received the 2016 Boltzmann Medal{{Cite web|url=https://statphys26.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/16|title=The Boltzmann Medal for 2016 has been awarded during the Boltzmann Ceremony to Daan Frenkel and Yves Pomeau.|website=Statphys26|access-date=2018-10-31|archive-date=2018-10-31|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181031174100/https://statphys26.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/16|url-status=dead}} and the 2022 Lorentz Medal.{{Cite web|url=https://www.knaw.nl/nieuws/lorentzmedaille-voor-natuurkundige-daan-frenkel|title=Lorentz medal for physicist Daan Frenkel}} Asteroid 12651 Frenkel, discovered by astronomers during the third Palomar–Leiden trojan survey in 1977, was named in his honor in 2018.
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Category:Computational physicists
Category:Dutch physical chemists
Category:21st-century Dutch chemists
Category:20th-century Dutch physicists
Category:Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge
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Category:Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
Category:Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences
Category:Members of the University of Cambridge Department of Chemistry
Category:Scientists from Amsterdam
Category:Spinoza Prize winners
Category:University of Amsterdam alumni
Category:Academic staff of Utrecht University