Kendall Houk, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Kendall Houk

American chemist

Date of Birth: 27-Feb-1943

Place of Birth: Nashville, Tennessee, United States

Profession: chemist, university teacher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Kendall Newcomb Houk is the Saul Winstein Chair in Organic Chemistry at the University of California, Los Angeles.
His research group studies organic, organometallic, and biological reactions using the tools of computational chemistry.
This work involves quantum mechanical calculations, often with density functional theory, and molecular dynamics, either quantum dynamics for small systems or force fields such as AMBER, for solution and protein simulations.