William L. Jorgensen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

William L. Jorgensen

US-american chemist

Date of Birth: 05-Oct-1949

Place of Birth: New York City, New York, United States

Profession: chemist, researcher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Libra

William L.
Jorgensen (born October 5, 1949, New York) is a Sterling Professor of Chemistry at Yale University.
He is considered a pioneer in the field of computational chemistry.
Some of his contributions include the TIP3P, TIP4P, and TIP5P water models, the OPLS force field, and his work on free-energy perturbation theory for modeling reactions in solution, protein-ligand binding, and drug design; he has over 400 publications in the field.
Jorgensen has been the Editor of the ACS Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation since its founding in 2005.