The Fukui Medal for outstanding theoretical/computational chemists in the Asia-Pacific region and the Pople Medal to young scientists (at the age of 45 or less) in the Asia-Pacific region who distinguished himself/herself by an important contribution.
Candidates are scientists currently in the Asia-Pacific region or residents in other regions but originally from the Asia-Pacific region and the substantial part of the work should originate in the Asia-Pacific region.
Selection Procedure
The nomination of both Fukui and Pople medals is accompanied by a brief description of the nominee's major contributions to science with a total space limit of 2 pages including the publications. All nominations are sent to the President of APATCC by email. Then APATCC board members elect annual medalists by a ballot from a list of candidates. A winner must receive an absolute majority of the votes of board members. The nation of the medal winner (both Fukui and Pople Medals) is excluded from next year's ballot.
Award Winners
Fukui Medal
2012 Shigeru Nagase (Institute for Molecular Science, Okazaki) for
his achievement in theoretical and computational chemistry and close interplay with experiment.
2011 Peter A. Schwerdtfeger (Massey University, Auckland) for
his achievement in quantum chemistry, in particular for deeper understanding of quantum relativistic effects.
2010 Kwang S. Kim (Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang) for
his pioneering and extensive contributions to the application of theoretical/computational chemistry in design of new materials.
2009 Hiroshi Nakatsuji (Quantum Chemistry Research Institute, Kyoto).
He is one of the great pioneers in the development and applications of theoretical chemistry in the modern era.
2008 Debashis Mukherjee (Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata) for his pioneering development in the coupled cluster theory formalism.
2007 Kimihiko Hirao (University of Tokyo, Tokyo) for his contributions to the theory development of computational quantum chemistry.
2006 Leo Radom (University of Sydney, Sydney) for his significant contributions to the application of theoretical/computational chemistry
2005 Keiji Morokuma (Emory University, Atlanta) for his significant contributions to the development of theoretical/computational chemistry
Pople Medal
2012 Jin Yong Lee (Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon) for
his contributions to theoretical understanding of fluorescent sensors, organic semiconductors, organic magnetic
materials, and chemical reaction dynamics for extreme rare events, as well as design of new functional materials based on intermolecular
interactions.
2011 Hiromi Nakai (Waseda University, Tokyo)
for the development of linear-scaling electron correlation theory and density functional theory for weak interactions and core excitations.
2010 Chao-Ping Hsu (Academic Sinica, Taipei)
for her contributions to charge transport and energy transfer in advanced materials and dynamic description of biological systems. She developed computational schemes to characterize the electronic coupling strengths for both electron transfer, excitation energy transfer processes, and ab initio computational schemes to calculate triplet excitation energy transfer.
2009 Masahiro Ehara (Institute for Molecular Science, Okazaki)
for his theoretical development and applications of theoretical fine spectroscopy to the valence to core electron chemistry and dynamics.
2008 Shuhua Li (Nanjing University, Nanjing) for his contribution to the development of linear scaling electronic structure methods and block-correlated coupled cluster theory.
2007 Seiichiro Ten-no (Nagoya university, Nagoya) for his contribution to the development of methods in explicitly correlated electronic structure theory. He proposed a practical way of using the transcorrelated Hamiltonian in conjunction with short-range correlation factors. He developed novel expansions of many electron integrals, and introduced the Slater-type (exponential) geminal in F12 theory. The latter has brought about the recent progress of the choice of correlation factor, which is the primary source of error in explicitly correlated calculations.
2006 Wenjian Liu (Peking University, Beijing) for his contributions to relativistic quantum chemistry, especially the development of the Beijing Density Functional (BDF) code, and the formulation of time-dependent relativistic functional theory for excitations and an exact quasirelativistic decoupling of the Dirac equation.
2005 Peter M. W. Gill (Australian National University, Canberra) for his pioneering contributions to MP perturbation theory, the efficient calculation of two-electron integral algorithms (PRISM), molecular electrostatic potentials, linear-scaling methods, and density functional theory. He introduced the B-LYP method by combining Becke's exchange and Lee-Yang-Parr correlation functionals, which sparked wide interest in DFT in the early 1990s. He is the author of Q-Chem program package.
2012 Shigeru Nagase (Institute for Molecular Science, Okazaki) for
his achievement in theoretical and computational chemistry and close interplay with experiment.
2011 Peter A. Schwerdtfeger (Massey University, Auckland) for
his achievement in quantum chemistry, in particular for deeper understanding of quantum relativistic effects.
2010 Kwang S. Kim (Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang) for
his pioneering and extensive contributions to the application of theoretical/computational chemistry in design of new materials.
2009 Hiroshi Nakatsuji (Quantum Chemistry Research Institute, Kyoto).
He is one of the great pioneers in the development and applications of theoretical chemistry in the modern era.
2008 Debashis Mukherjee (Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata) for his pioneering development in the coupled cluster theory formalism.
2007 Kimihiko Hirao (University of Tokyo, Tokyo) for his contributions to the theory development of computational quantum chemistry.
2006 Leo Radom (University of Sydney, Sydney) for his significant contributions to the application of theoretical/computational chemistry
2005 Keiji Morokuma (Emory University, Atlanta) for his significant contributions to the development of theoretical/computational chemistry
2012 Jin Yong Lee (Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon) for
his contributions to theoretical understanding of fluorescent sensors, organic semiconductors, organic magnetic
materials, and chemical reaction dynamics for extreme rare events, as well as design of new functional materials based on intermolecular
interactions.
2011 Hiromi Nakai (Waseda University, Tokyo)
for the development of linear-scaling electron correlation theory and density functional theory for weak interactions and core excitations.
2010 Chao-Ping Hsu (Academic Sinica, Taipei)
for her contributions to charge transport and energy transfer in advanced materials and dynamic description of biological systems. She developed computational schemes to characterize the electronic coupling strengths for both electron transfer, excitation energy transfer processes, and ab initio computational schemes to calculate triplet excitation energy transfer.
2009 Masahiro Ehara (Institute for Molecular Science, Okazaki)
for his theoretical development and applications of theoretical fine spectroscopy to the valence to core electron chemistry and dynamics.
2008 Shuhua Li (Nanjing University, Nanjing) for his contribution to the development of linear scaling electronic structure methods and block-correlated coupled cluster theory.
2007 Seiichiro Ten-no (Nagoya university, Nagoya) for his contribution to the development of methods in explicitly correlated electronic structure theory. He proposed a practical way of using the transcorrelated Hamiltonian in conjunction with short-range correlation factors. He developed novel expansions of many electron integrals, and introduced the Slater-type (exponential) geminal in F12 theory. The latter has brought about the recent progress of the choice of correlation factor, which is the primary source of error in explicitly correlated calculations.
2006 Wenjian Liu (Peking University, Beijing) for his contributions to relativistic quantum chemistry, especially the development of the Beijing Density Functional (BDF) code, and the formulation of time-dependent relativistic functional theory for excitations and an exact quasirelativistic decoupling of the Dirac equation.
2005 Peter M. W. Gill (Australian National University, Canberra) for his pioneering contributions to MP perturbation theory, the efficient calculation of two-electron integral algorithms (PRISM), molecular electrostatic potentials, linear-scaling methods, and density functional theory. He introduced the B-LYP method by combining Becke's exchange and Lee-Yang-Parr correlation functionals, which sparked wide interest in DFT in the early 1990s. He is the author of Q-Chem program package.
