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William Goddard is the Charles and Mary Ferkel Professor of Chemistry, Materials Science, and Applied Physics and Director of the Materials and Process Simulation Center (MSC) at California Institute of Technology, where he has been on the faculty since November, 1964. He was Elected Member of National Academy of Science in 1984, the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science in 1988, Fellow of American Physical Society in 1988, Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1990, Fellow of the Royal Society Chemistry in 2008, and Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2010.

His awards include ACS Computers in Chemistry (1988), Richard M. Badger Teaching Prize in Chemistry, Caltech (1995); Feynman Prize for Nanotechnology Theory (1999), Richard Chase Tolman Prize CA ACS (2000); Honoris Causa Philosophia Doctorem (Chemistry, Uppsala U., Sweden, 2004); ACS Theoretical Chemistry (2007); NASA Space Sciences (sensors 2009 and polymers 2012); Distinguished Scientific Achievement in Catalysis from the 7th World Congress on Oxidation Catalysis (2013). His current research interests include new methodology for quantum chemistry, reactive force fields, reactive dynamics, and electron dynamics with applications of atomistic simulations to chemical, biological, and materials systems, including homogenous and heterogeneous catalysis, electrocatalysis, polymers, semiconductors, superconductors, metal alloys, fuel cells, batteries, energetic materials, nanoelectronics, GPCR protein structure prediction, drug design and materials under extreme conditions. Goddard is a co-founder of Schrödinger and a chairman of the Scientific Advisor Board on Materials Sciences.