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Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry

 

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.