William L. Jorgensen
William L. Jorgensen | |
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| Born | October 5, 1949 |
| Alma mater | Princeton University, Harvard University |
| Known for | OPLS force field, TIPnP, FEP |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computational Chemistry |
| Institutions | Yale University |
| Doctoral advisor | Elias J. Corey |
William L. Jorgensen (born October 5, 1949, in New York) is a Sterling Professor of Chemistry at Yale University. He is known for his work in the field of computational chemistry. Some of his contributions include the TIP3P, TIP4P, and TIP5P water models, the OPLS force field, free-energy perturbation theory for modelling reactions in solution, protein-ligand binding, and drug design. Jorgensen served as the Editor of the ACS Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation from its founding in 2005 until 2022.