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World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists

{{Short description|Association of chemists}}

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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. It was originally called the World Association of Theoretical Organic Chemists, but was later renamed the World Association of Theoretically Oriented Chemists, and in 2005 renamed once more to the World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists.

Conferences

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

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!Date

!Year

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!Country

!Organizer

1

|WATOC-1987

|August 12–18

|1987

|100px

|Budapest

|Hungary

|Imre Csizmadia

2

|WATOC-1990

|July 8–14

|1990

|100px

|Toronto

|Canada

|Imre Csizmadia

3

|WATOC-1993

|July 18–25

|1993

|100px

|Toyohashi

|Japan

|Keiji Morokuma

4

|WATOC-1996

|July 7–12

|1996

|100px

|Jerusalem

|Israel

|Amiram Goldblum

5

|WATOC-1999

|August 1–6

|1999

|100px

|London

|UK

|Mike Robb
Henry Rzepa

6

|WATOC-2002

|August 6–9

|2002

|100px

|Lugano

|Switzerland

|Hans-Peter Lüthi

7

|WATOC-2005

|January 16–21

|2005

|100px

|Cape Town

|South Africa

|Kevin Naidoo

8

|WATOC-2008

|September 14–19

|2008

|100px

|Sydney

|Australia

|Leo Radom

9

|WATOC-2011

|July 17–22

|2011

|100px

|Santiago de Compostela

|Spain

|Manuel Yáñez
Otilia Mó

10

|WATOC-2014

|October 5–10

|2014

|100px

|Santiago de Chile

|Chile

|Alejandro Toro-Labbé

11

|WATOC-2017

|August 27 – September 1

|2017

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|Munich

|Germany

|Christian Ochsenfeld

12

|WATOC-2020

|August 16 – 21

|2020

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|Vancouver

|Canada

|Russell J. Boyd

13

|WATOC-2025

|June 22 – 27

|2025

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|Oslo

|Norway

|Trygve Helgaker

Awards

{{main|Schrödinger Medal}}

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

= Recipients of the Dirac Medal <span class="anchor" id="Dirac Medal"></span>=

{{For|other prizes named after Paul Dirac|Dirac Medal (disambiguation){{!}}Dirac Medal}}

Source: [http://watoc.net/watoc.dirac.html WATOC]

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List of presidents

Presidents of WATOC:

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1

|File:Imre Csizmadia.jpg

| Imre Gyula Csizmadia

| 1987

| 1990

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| Paul von Rague Schleyer

| 1990

| 1996

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| Henry F. Schaefer, III

| 1996

| 2005

4

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| Leo Radom

| 2005

| 2011

5

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| Walter Thiel

| 2011

| 2017

6

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| Peter Gill

| 2017

| 2025

External links

  • [http://watoc.net/ WATOC home page]

References

For instance, in 2005 it was called "World Association of Theoretically Oriented Chemists" as can be seen in the poster for WATOC-2005 congress: {{cite web |url=http://watoc.net/pdf/WATOC-2005_Overview.pdf|title=WATOC-2005. Modelling Structure and Reactivity. 7th World Congress of the World Association of Theoretically Oriented Chemists |last1= |first1= |last2= |first2= |date=2015 |website=World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists |publisher= |access-date=22 March 2015}}

{{cite web |url=http://watoc.net/watoc.congress.html|title=WATOC - Congress|last1= |first1= |last2= |first2= |date=2015 |website=World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists |publisher= |access-date=22 March 2015}}

{{cite web |url=http://watoc.net/watoc.dirac.html|title=Dirac - medal|last1= |first1= |last2= |first2= |date=2015 |website=World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists |publisher= |access-date=22 March 2015}}

{{cite web |url=http://watoc.net/watoc.history.html|title=WATOC - History|last1= |first1= |last2= |first2= |date=2015 |website=World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists |publisher= |access-date=22 March 2015}}

{{cite web |url=http://watoc.net/index.html|title=WATOC - Home|last1= |first1= |last2= |first2= |date=2015 |website=World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists |publisher= |access-date=22 March 2015}}

{{cite web |url=http://watoc.net/watoc.schroedinger.html|title=WATOC - Schroedinger|last1= |first1= |last2= |first2= |date=2015 |website=World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists |publisher= |access-date=22 March 2015}}

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Category:Scientific organizations established in 1982