User talk:Truhlar

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, Truhlar. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places, or things you have written about in the article Donald Truhlar, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic, and it is important when editing Wikipedia articles that such connections be completely transparent. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. In particular, we ask that you please:


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Please take a few moments to read and review Wikipedia's policies regarding conflicts of interest, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing and autobiographies. Thank you. WNYY98 (talk) 01:29, 26 December 2016 (UTC)

Some proposed changes
Somebody created a page about me. Some of the information is not quite correct, and it is very incomplete. I cannot edit it myself because that would be a conflict of interest.

I would propose the following changes if it were permitted.

1. In the first paragraph, I think that "working in computational quantum and theoretical chemistry, chemical physics" is not quite right (and has poor grammar as well). I propose replacing it by "whose research is mainly in the area of theoretical and computational physical chemistry and chemical physics, with emphasis on quantum mechanics and chemical dynamics."

2. In the next section, I believe that "and so on" is not needed (and is somewhat inelegant). Furthermore, I would change "density functional theory (where its main contributions are represented by the Minnesota Functionals) and so on." to "and density functional theory, including the Minnesota functionals."

3. The section "Awards and honors" is out of date (many recent awards are not included) and some of the dates are wrong for material that is included. Plus it includes service (editorial work) as well as awards and honors. A more correct version would be as follows:
 * Hi there. Hope you don't mind me answering here for greater visibility. Just as another editor has said below, an edit request needs to be posted on the article's talk page, as per Edit_requests, giving an opportunity to involved editors to reach a consensus on whether or not a change should be implemented. After a consensus has been reached, or if there is no clear opposition to the change, the edit request template should be placed on the article's talk page, and an independent editor (such as myself) will review the proposed change, and decide whether or not it should be made. Request denied due to incorrect procedure (just post your proposal on the article's talk page and wait for editors to express their opinions, then post the template). Regards, VB00 (talk) 12:26, 30 December 2016 (UTC)

Major awards and honors
Truhlar was elected to International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science in 2006, to the National Academy of Sciences of the USA in 2009, and to the american academy of arts and sciences in 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 in 1986, the American Chemical Society in 2009, the American Physical Society in 1986, the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2009, and the World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists in 2006. He was a visiting Fellow at  the  Battelle Memorial Institute in 1973, and at the  Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics, 1975–76, and he was named an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellow in 1973.

He received NSF Creativity Award, 1993; the ACS Award for Computers in Chemical and Pharmaceutical Research, 2000; the Minnesota Award, 2003 ("for outstanding contributions to the chemical sciences"); National Academy of Sciences Award for Scientific Reviewing, 2004; the ACS Peter Debye Award for Physical Chemistry, 2006; the Lise Meitner Lectureship Award, 2006; the Schrödinger Medal of The World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists, 2006; Dudley R. Herschbach Award for Research in Molecular Collision Dynamics, 2009; Doctor honoris causa of Technical University of Lodz, Poland, 2010; Royal Society of Chemistry Chemical Dynamics Award, 2012; and the Earle K. Plyler Prize for Molecular Spectroscopy and Dynamics of the American Physical Society, 2015.

Editorships and other major service
Truhlar served as an Associate Editor of the Journal of the American Chemical Society from 1984 to 2016, as (successively) editor, editor-in-chief, associate editor, and chief advisory editor of Theoretical Chemistry Accounts (formerly Theoretica Chimica Acta) from 1985 to the present, and as a principal editor of Computer Physics Communications'' from 1986 to 2015. He has served or is serving on the editorial boards of 14 other journals and three book series, and he has edited 13 books.

His major service to the American Chemical Society includes Secretary of Theoretical Chemistry Subdivision, 1980-89, national councilor, 1985-87, and chair of the Task Force on Publication in Molecular Modeling. 1992. His major service to the American Physical Society includes Chair of the Division of Chemical Physics, 2012-2013. dgt (talk) 01:58, 26 December 2016 (UTC)

Your suggested changes
These changes should go on the Donald Truhlar talk page if you want more visibility --WNYY98 (talk) 02:06, 26 December 2016 (UTC)