W.A.Goddard
Goddard joined the chemistry faculty in November 1964, where he is now Charles and Mary Ferkel Professor of Chemistry, Materials Science, and Applied Physics and Director of the Materials and Process Simulation Center (MSC).
Goddard has been and continues to be a pioneer in developing methods for quantum mechanics (QM), force fields (FF), reactive dynamics (RD), molecular dynamics (MD), and Complete Sampling predictions of protein-ligand systems.
Research
Professor Goddard's research has focused on describing the properties of chemical, biological, and materials systems directly from first principles (without the necessity of empirical data). To accomplish this the group has developed new theory, new methods, and new software. These methods are then applied to challenging applications usually in collaboration with experimentalists at Caltech, other universities, national laboratories, or industry.
Publications
The number of his publications is currently over 1548(1967-2022). Total yearly average of publications is over 27, especially after 2000, the average number of publications is over 49 which means he published a new article every week. The year with the most papers was 2021, with a total of 99 papers for just one year.
The most highly cited article is "UFF, a full periodic table force field for molecular mechanics and molecular dynamics simulations"(1992) and cited 9541 times up to now. (Jan 2023)