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Professor Daan Frenkel has been awarded the Joseph Hirschfelde Prize

10 May 2011

The Department of Chemistry is  pleased to announce that Professor Daan Frenkel has been awarded the Joseph Hirschfelder Prize 2011-2012, University of Wisconsin

 

http://www.chem.wisc.edu/content/daan-frenkel-wins-joseph-hirschfelder-prize

 

This is the first time that the award has been made to a member of a British University.

The annual Joseph O. Hirschfelder Prize in Theoretical Chemistry was established by the Theoretical Chemistry Institute in 1991 from funds donated by Professor Joseph O. Hirschfelder (1911-1990) and his widow, Dr. Elizabeth S. Hirschfelder.  Professor Hirschfelder had a distinguished career of teaching, research and public service at the University of Wisconsin for over forty years.