The International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science was created in Menton in 1967, with Professors Raymond Daudel (France), Per-Olov Löwdin (Sweden), Robert G. Parr (USA), John A. Pople (USA) and Bernard Pullman (France) as its founding members, under the inspiration and with the support of Professor Louis de Broglie, Nobel Laureate and Perpetual Secretary of the French Academy of Sciences, Paris. The Academy was planned to have 25 (later 30, and presently 35) regular members under 65 years of age and may have an unlimited number of senior members. The members are chosen among the scientists of all countries who have distinguished themselves by the value of their scientific work, their role of pioneer or leader of a school in the broad field of quantum chemistry, i.e. the application of quantum mechanics to the study of molecules and macromolecules. The Academy has as its main goal to provide a forum for international contact and collaboration and a periodical evaluation of the main developments, advances and promising directions of research in the broad field of its interest. Menton (Italian, Mentone) is a town and commune in the Alpes-Maritimes département of the Provence-Alpes-Côte dAzur région of France. ... Raymond Daudel was born on [[2 February], 1920 in Paris, France. ... Per-Olov Löwdin (born in 1916 in Uppsala, Sweden, died in 2000) was a Swedish physicist, professor at the University of Uppsala in 1960-1983, and in parallel at the University of Florida until 1993. ... Robert Ghormley Parr (born September 22, 1921) is a theoretical chemist. ... Sir John Anthony Pople (October 31, 1925 - March 15, 2004) was a theoretical chemist. ... Bernard Pullman was born in Poland in 1919 and died in 1996. ... Louis-Victor-Pierre-Raymond, 7th duc de Broglie, generally known as Louis de Broglie (August 15, 1892–March 19, 1987), was a French physicist and Nobel Prize laureate. ... The French Academy of Sciences (Académie des sciences) is a learned society, founded in 1666 by Louis XIV at the suggestion of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, to encourage and protect the spirit of French scientific research. ... Linus Pauling, as a pioneer of the valence bond theory, is one of the first quantum chemists. ... A simple introduction to this subject is provided in Basics of quantum mechanics. ... In general, a molecule is the smallest particle of a pure chemical substance that still retains its composition and chemical properties. ... A macromolecule is a molecule of high relative molecular mass, the structure of which essentially comprises the multiple repetition of units derived, actually or conceptually, from molecules of low relative molecular mass. ...

One of the main initiatives of the Academy was the organization of a series of International Congresses in Quantum Chemistry, with an interval of three years. The first was arranged in Menton (1973), the second in New Orleans (1976), the third in Kyoto (1979), the fourth in Uppsala (1982), the fifth in Montreal (1985), the sixth in Jerusalem (1988), the seventh in Menton (1991), the eighth in Prague (1994), the ninth in Atlanta (1997), and the tenth in Menton (2000). The eleventh Congress was held in Bonn in July 2003 and the twelfth is scheduled for May 2006 in Kyoto, Japan. The thirteenth is to be held in Helsinki in 2009. Linus Pauling, as a pioneer of the valence bond theory, is one of the first quantum chemists. ... Menton (Italian, Mentone) is a town and commune in the Alpes-Maritimes département of the Provence-Alpes-Côte dAzur région of France. ... New Orleans is the largest city in the state of Louisiana, United States of America. ... This page is about the city Kyoto. ... Uppsala (older spelling Upsala) 59°51′ N 17°38′ E is a Swedish City in central Sweden, located about 70 km north of Stockholm. ... City motto: Concordia Salus (Latin: Well-being through harmony) Province Quebec Mayor Gérald Tremblay Area  - % water 366. ... Jerusalem (31°46′N 35°14′E; Hebrew: (help· info) Yerushalayim; Arabic: (help· info) al-Quds, Greek Ιεροσόλυμα), is an ancient Middle Eastern city on the watershed between the Mediterranean Sea and the Dead Sea at an elevation of 650-840 meters. ... Menton (Italian, Mentone) is a town and commune in the Alpes-Maritimes département of the Provence-Alpes-Côte dAzur région of France. ... Prague (Czech: Praha, see also other names) is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. ... This article is about the state capital of Georgia. ... Menton (Italian, Mentone) is a town and commune in the Alpes-Maritimes département of the Provence-Alpes-Côte dAzur région of France. ... Bonn is a city in Germany (19th largest), in the Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia, located about 20 kilometres south of Cologne on the river Rhine in the north of the Siebengebirge. ... This page is about the city Kyoto. ... Province Southern Finland Region Uusimaa Sub-region Helsinki City manager Jussi Pajunen Official languages Finnish, Swedish Area  - total  - land ranked 342nd 185. ...

Another initiative of the academy consists of an annual attribution of a medal to a young member of the scientific community who has distinguished himself by a pioneering and important contribution. Till now there have been 35 laureates of the medal.

The Academy presently consists of 88 members, of whom 34 are under 65 years of age (outdated info).

Members of the academy

• Reinhart Ahlrichs
• Jean-Marie André
• Evert-Jan Baerends
• Rodney J. Bartlett
• Mikhail V. Basilevsky
• Axel D. Becke
• A. David Buckingham
• Petr Cársky
• Lorenz S. Cederbaum
• Jiri Cizek
• David C. Clary
• Enrico Clementi
• David P. Craig
• Alexander Dalgarno
• Raymond Daudel
• Ernest R. Davidson
• Wolfgang Domcke
• Michel Dupuis
• Inga Fisher-Hjalmars
• William A. Goddard, III
• Mark S. Gordon
• George G. Hall
• Nicholas C. Handy
• Edgar Heilbronner
• Trygve Helgaker
• Eric J. Heller
• Kimihiko Hirao
• Roald Hoffmann
• Kendall N. Houk
• Bogumil Jeziorski
• Joshua Jortner
• Martin Karplus
• Michael Kasha
• Shigekil Kato
• Walter Kohn
• Ronnie Kosloff
• Werner Kutzelnigg
• Roland Lefebvre
• Raphael D. Levine
• John C. Light
• Jan Erik Linderberg
• William N. Lipscomb
• Jean-Claude Lorquet
• Jean-Paul Malrieu
• Rudolph A. Marcus
• Frederick A. Matsen
• Harden M. McConnell
• Roy McWeeny
• Wilfried E. Meyer
• Josef Michl
• William H. Miller
• Keiji Morokuma
• Debashis Mukherjee
• Saburo Nakakura
• Hiroshi Nakatsuji
• Willem C. Nieuwpoort
• Evgueni E. Nikitin
• Jeppe Olsen
• Josef Paldus
• Robert G. Parr
• Michele Parrinello
• Ruben Pauncz
• John P. Perdew
• Sigrid D. Peyerimhoff
• Peter Pulay
• Alberte Pullman
• Pekka Pyykkö
• Leo Radom
• Mark A. Ratner
• Michael A. Robb
• Björn Olof Roos
• Clemens C. J. Roothaan
• Klaus Ruedenberg
• Lionel Salem
• Camille Sandorfy
• Henry F. Schaefer, III
• George C. Schatz
• Paul von Rague Schleyer
• Eolo Scrocco
• Isaiah Shavitt
• Per E. M. Siegbahn
• Au-chin Tang
• Jacopo Tomasi
• John Tully
• Ad van der Avoird
• Alain Veillard
• Hans-Joachim Werner
• Rudolf Zahradnik

Prof. ... Rodney J. Bartlett was born March 31, 1944 in Memphis, Tennessee, USA. He is Graduate Research Professor of Chemistry and Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA. He has made particular contributions to coupled cluster theory, including CCSD, full CCSDT and full CCSDTQ (1992). ... Petr Čársky was Born on May 29, 1942. ... Lorenz Cederbaum studied physics at the University of Munich and obtained his diplome in 1970, his phD in 1972, and habilitation in 1976. ... David P. Craig (Born December 23, 1919 in Sydney, Australia) is Emeritus Professor at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia, where he was one of the Foundation Professors in the Research School of Chemistry. ... Raymond Daudel was born on [[2 February], 1920 in Paris, France. ... Ernest R. Davidson (Born October 12, 1936 in Terre Haute, Indiana, USA) is Professor of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA. He has been awarded many honours, including:- Member of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science (1981). ... William A. Goddard, III (Born March 29, 1937 in El Centro, California, USA) is the Charles and Mary Ferkel Professor of Chemistry and Applied Physics, and Director, Materials and Process Simulation Center at the California Institute of Technology. ... George Garfield Hall (born March 5, 1925), is an applied mathematician and scientist of distinction, known for original work and contributions to the field of Quantum chemistry. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Trygve Helgaker was born August 11, 1953 in Porsgrunn, Norway. ... Roald Hoffmann (born July 18, 1937 as Roald Safran --- Hoffmann is the surname of his stepfather) is an American theoretical chemist of Polish-Jewish origin. ... K. N. Houk Kendall Newcomb Houk (b. ... Martin Karplus (born March 15, 1930, Vienna, Austria) is an Austrian-born U.S. chemist. ... Walter Kohn (born March 9, 1923 in Vienna, Austria) is an Austrian-born American physicist who was awarded, with John A. Pople, the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1998. ... Werner Kutzelnigg was born on September 10, 1933 in Wien, Vienna. ... William Nunn Lipscomb, Jr. ... Jean-Claude Lorquet was born on September 19, 1935 in Liège, Belgium. ... Rudolph Rudy Arthur Marcus (born July 21, 1923) received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his theory of Electron transfer. ... Roy McWeeny was born May 19, 1924 in Bradford, Yorkshire, England. ... Robert Ghormley Parr (born September 22, 1921) is a theoretical chemist. ... Born January 12, 1937 in Rottweil, Germany. ... Peter Pulay (Born September 20, 1941) in Veszprém, Hungary is a theoretical chemist. ... Alberte Pullman (nee Bucher) was born in France in 1920. ... Leo Radom was born on December 13, 1944 in Shanghai, China. ... Clemens C.J. Roothaan was born in 1918 in Nijmwegen, the Netherlands. ... Camille Sandorfy (born 1920) is a Canadian quantum chemist. ... Henry F. Schaefer III was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1944. ... Paul von Rague Schleyer Paul von Rague Schleyer is one of the most accomplished organic physical chemists of the 20th century. ... Isaiah Shavitt was born on July 29, 1925 in Kutno, Poland. ... Rudolf Zahradník (born October 20, 1928 in Bratislava, then Czechoslovakia, now Slovakia) is a Czech chemist. ...

Deceased members

• David R. Bates
• Louis de Broglie
• S. Francis Boys
• Charles A. Coulson
• Alexander S. Davydov
• Michael J. S. Dewar
• Henry Eyring
• Kenichi Fukui
• Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fock
• Rezsö Gaspar
• Hermann Hartmann
• Gerhard Herzberg
• Joseph O. Hirschfelder
• Erich Hückel
• Friedrich Hund
• Wlodzimierz Kolos
• Masao Kotani
• Jaroslav Koutecky
• H. Christopher Longuet-Higgins
• Per-Olov Löwdin
• Robert S. Mulliken
• Linus Pauling
• John A. Pople
• Bernard Pullman
• Massimo Simonetta
• John C. Slater
• Edward Teller
• John H. Van Vleck
• E. Bright Wilson

Louis-Victor-Pierre-Raymond, 7th duc de Broglie, generally known as Louis de Broglie (August 15, 1892–March 19, 1987), was a French physicist and Nobel Prize laureate. ... S. Francis Boys (1911-1972) was born in Pudsey, Yorkshire, United Kingdom. ... Charles Alfred Coulson (1910-1974) was a prominent researcher in the field of theoretical chemistry. ... Michael J. S. Dewar was born in Ahmednagar, India in 1918. ... Henry Eyring (February 20, 1901 - December 26, 1981) was a theoretical chemist whose primary contribution was in the study of chemical reaction rates and intermediates. ... Kenichi Fukui (福井謙一 Fukui Kenichi, October 4, 1918 – January 9, 1998) was a Japanese chemist. ... Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fock (or Fok, Владимир Александрович Фок) (December 22, 1898 - December 27, 1974) was a Soviet physicist, who did foundational work on quantum mechanics. ... Gerhard Herzberg (December 25, 1904 – March 3, 1999) was a pioneering theoretical chemist. ... Erich Armand Arthur Joseph Hückel (August 9, 1896 - February 16, 1980) was a German physicist and physical chemist. ... ... Per-Olov Löwdin (born in 1916 in Uppsala, Sweden, died in 2000) was a Swedish physicist, professor at the University of Uppsala in 1960-1983, and in parallel at the University of Florida until 1993. ... Robert Sanderson Mulliken (June 7, 1896 – October 31, 1986) was an American physicist and chemist, primarily responsible for the elaboration of the molecular orbital method of computing the structure of molecules. ... Linus Carl Pauling (February 28, 1901 – August 19, 1994) was an American quantum chemist and biochemist, widely regarded as the premier chemist of the twentieth century. ... Sir John Anthony Pople (October 31, 1925 - March 15, 2004) was a theoretical chemist. ... Bernard Pullman was born in Poland in 1919 and died in 1996. ... John Clark Slater (1900-1976) was a major physicist and theoretical chemist. ... Edward Teller in 1958 as Director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. ... John Hasbrouck van Vleck (March 13, 1899 – October 27, 1980) was an American physicist. ...

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