Donald Truhlar
| Donald G. Truhlar | |
|---|---|
| Born |
February 27, 1944 (age 73) Chicago, Illinois United States |
| Residence | United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | California Institute of Technology |
| Known for | Density Functional Theory, solvation models, Basis sets, quantum chemical methods |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computational Chemistry, Theoretical Chemistry, Quantum Chemistry |
| Institutions | University of Minnesota |
| Doctoral advisor | Aron Kuppermann |
Donald G. Truhlar is an American scientist working in theoretical and computational chemistry and chemical physics with special emphases on quantum mechanics and chemical dynamics.
Truhlar received a B.A., from St. Mary's College of Minnesota (1965), and a Ph. D., from Caltech (1970), under Aron Kuppermann; He has been on the faculty of the University of Minnesota from 1969–present.
Truhlar is known for his contributions to theoretical chemical dynamics of chemical reactions; quantum mechanical scattering theory of chemical reactions and molecular energy transfer; electron scattering; theoretical kinetics and chemical dynamics; potential energy surfaces and molecular interactions; path integrals; variational transition state theory; the use of electronic structure theory for calculations of chemical structure, reaction rates, electronically nonadiabatic processes, and solvation effects; photochemistry; combustion chemistry; heterogeneous, homogeneous, and enzyme catalysis; atmospheric and environmental chemistry; drug design; nanoparticle structure and energetics; and density functional theory, including the Minnesota Functionals. He has been the author of more than 1100 papers published in journals of international repute. One of his papers, in which the M06 density functional methods were described, has received more than 10000 citations.
Truhlar was elected to the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science (2006), the National Academy of Sciences of the USA (2009), and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2015). He became an Honorary Fellow of the Chinese Chemical Society in 2015. He was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, (1986) the American Chemical Society (2009), the American Physical Society (1986), the Royal Society of Chemistry (2009), and the World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists (2006). He was a visiting Fellow at the Battelle Memorial Institute (1973) and at the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (1975–76), and was named an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellow (1973).
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