Society Awards and Honors
2003 Awards
David Dixon Receives American Chemical Society 2003 National Award
David Dixon, Associate Director of Theory, Modeling and Simulation at the William R. Wiley Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL), received the American Chemical Society’s 2003 national award for creative work in Fluorine Chemistry. The award honors Dr. Dixon for “advancing the use of computational chemistry to bring unique understanding to the field of fluorine chemistry, especially chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) replacements, organofluorine molecules, and inorganic fluorides.” Dr. Dixon introduced the use of reliable computational approaches to study compounds containing fluorine almost 20 years ago. At the time, it was thought that computational approaches could not predict the properties of fluorinated compounds, and he developed methods that allowed the properties of these technologically important compounds to be predicted reliably. He also has been a leader in the supercomputing revolution, demonstrating the capabilities of these unique resources to address the most challenging scientific and engineering problems. (announced 1/1/2003)