Bartlett to receive 2007 ACS Award in Theoretical Chemistry

Professor Rodney J. Bartlett, Graduate Research Professor of Chemistry and Physics, has been selected as the recipient of the 2007 ACS Award in Theoretical Chemistry.   Sponsored by the IBM Corporation, this is one of the most prestigious international awards in the field. It is awarded to a scientist who has accomplished innovative research in theoretical chemistry that either advances theoretical methodology or contributes to new discoveries about chemical systems.  

Professor Bartlett has been both a pioneer of rigorous many-body methods for electron correlation and a main thrust that brought them into today's central computational tool for accurate electronic structure prediction. He accomplished the latter through the continuous refinement of theory and computational algorithms and also by carrying out important applications, which often led to discoveries of new chemical principles and species. It is now widely agreed that the many-body methods that Professor Bartlett has been instrumental in establishing offer the most predictive and generally applicable approaches in the field.  

Professor Bartlett will be honored in an award ceremony held during the 233rd National ACS meeting in Chicago, March 25-29.