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AWARDS
Three chemists are among the 15 recipients of the National Medal of Science named last week by President George W. Bush. The chemists are Gabor A. Somorjai, professor of chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley; Ernest R. Davidson, professor of computational quantum chemistry at Indiana University, Bloomington; and Raymond Davis Jr., formerly of Brookhaven National Laboratory.
"Each one of these individuals has helped advance our country's place as leader in discovery, creativity, and technology," President Bush said. "Their contributions have touched all of our lives and will continue to do so in the future." Somorjai's research in chemistry has two major aims: to determine the surface structure and chemical bonding of metals, ionic solids, adsorbed organic monolayers, and polymers; and to apply the knowledge to understanding, on the molecular level, important macroscopic surface phenomena. Davidson, a colleague has said, "is a quantum chemist's quantum chemist." He is a leader in the field who has made advancements in innumerable areas from density functional theory to electron momentum spectroscopy. |
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