Peter Andrew Kollman (July 24, 1944–May 25, 2001) was a

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and

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at the

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. He is known for his work in

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and

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, especially for his role in the development of the

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force field and

molecular dynamics Molecular dynamics (MD) is a computer simulation method for analyzing the physical movements of atoms and molecules. The atoms and molecules are allowed to interact for a fixed period of time, giving a view of the dynamic "evolution" of the ...

software package.

Biography

Kollman obtained his B.A. from

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in 1966 and his M.A. and Ph.D. from

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in 1967 and 1970 respectively. His PhD supervisor was Leland C. Allen, who had received his PhD in 1956 from

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supervised by

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. After a post-doctoral position at the

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with David Buckingham, Kollman was hired as an assistant professor by UCSF, where he spent the rest of his career. In 1995, he was distinguished with the Computers in Chemistry Award from the

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. He was awarded the

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medal in 2018.

References

External links

Nature obituary of Peter KollmanBiophysical Journal obituary of Peter KollmanSan Francisco Chronicle obituary of Peter Kollman
* ttps://web.archive.org/web/20110927232549/http://www.staff.uni-marburg.de/~germano/peter.html UCSF today obituary of Peter Kollmanbr>Peter Kollman at the Academic Family Tree
* 1944 births 2001 deaths 20th-century American chemists University of California, San Francisco faculty Computational chemists {{US-chemist-stub