World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists

The World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists (WATOC) is a scholarly association founded in 1982 "in order to encourage the development and application of theoretical methods" in chemistry, particularly theoretical chemistry and computational chemistry. It was originally called the World Association of Theoretical Organic Chemists, but was later renamed the World Association of Theoretically Oriented Chemists, and in 2005 renamed once more to the World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists.

Conferences
WATOC organizes a triennial world congress with over 1,000 participants in last years.

Awards
The association awards two yearly medals: the Schrödinger Medal to one "outstanding theoretical and computational chemist", and the Dirac Medal to one "outstanding theoretical and computational chemist under the age of 40".

Recipients of the Dirac Medal
Source: WATOC


 * 1998: Timothy J. Lee
 * 1999: Peter M. W. Gill
 * 2000: Jiali Gao
 * 2001: Martin Kaupp
 * 2002: Jerzy Cioslowski
 * 2003: Peter Schreiner
 * 2004: Jan Martin
 * 2005: Ursula Röthlisberger
 * 2006: Lucas Visscher
 * 2007: Anna Krylov
 * 2008: Kenneth Ruud
 * 2009: Jeremy Harvey
 * 2010: Daniel Crawford
 * 2011: Leticia González
 * 2012: Paul Ayers
 * 2013: Filipp Furche
 * 2014: Denis Jacquemin
 * 2015: Edward Valeev
 * 2016: Johannes Neugebauer
 * 2017: Francesco Evangelista
 * 2018: Erin Johnson
 * 2019: Satoshi Maeda
 * 2020: Alexandre Tkatchenko
 * 2021: Edit Matyus
 * 2022: Katharina Boguslawski
 * 2023: Thomas Jagau

List of presidents
Presidents of WATOC: