Daan Frenkel Explained

Birth Place:Amsterdam
Alma Mater:University of Amsterdam (PhD)
Thesis Title:Rotational relaxation of linear molecules in dense noble gases
Thesis Url:https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/61886133
Thesis Year:1977
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Doctoral Students:Marjolein Dijkstra
Known For:Noro–Frenkel law of corresponding states
Awards:Spinoza Prize (2000)
ForMemRS (2006)
Aneesur Rahman Prize (2007)
Fritz London Memorial Lecture (2011)
Boltzmann Medal (2016)[1]
Lorentz Medal (2022)
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Daan Frenkel [2] (born 1948, Amsterdam) is a Dutch computational physicist in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge.[3] [4] [5] [6]

Education

Frenkel completed his PhD at the University of Amsterdam in 1977 in experimental physical chemistry.[7] [8]

Career and research

Frenkel worked as postdoctoral research fellow in the Chemistry and Biochemistry Department at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), subsequently at Shell and at the University of Utrecht.

Between 1987 and 2007, Frenkel carried out his research at the FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics (AMOLF) in Amsterdam where he has been employed since 1987. In the same period, he was appointed (part-time) professor at the Universities of Utrecht and Amsterdam. From 2011 to 2015 he was Head of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge. Since 2007 he is a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge.[9]

Frenkel has co-authored together with Berend Smit Understanding Molecular Simulation, which has grown into a handbook used worldwide by aspiring computational physicists.[10]

Awards and honours

In 2000 he was one of three winners of the Dutch Spinoza Prize.[11] In 2008 he was appointed a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. He is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (1998),[12] the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2008), and The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) in 2012. He was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 2006.In 2016 he was elected as a foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciences.[13] In 2007 he received the Aneesur Rahman Prize from the American Physical Society (APS)[14] and the Berni J Alder CECAM prize.[15] In 2010 he received the Soft Matter and Biophysical Chemistry Award from the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), UK.[16]

He received the 2016 Boltzmann Medal[17] and the 2022 Lorentz Medal.[18] Asteroid 12651 Frenkel, discovered by astronomers during the third Palomar–Leiden trojan survey in 1977, was named in his honor in 2018.

Notes and References

  1. Frenkel. Daan. Louët. Sabine. Interview with Daan Frenkel, Boltzmann Medallist 2016. The European Physical Journal E. 39. 6. 68. 2016. 1292-8941. 10.1140/epje/i2016-16068-7. 27349557. 45142053.
  2. Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20151117111135/https://royalsociety.org/people/daan-frenkel-11464/. 2015-11-17. Professor Daan Frenkel ForMemRS. Anon. 2006. Royal Society. London. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:
  3. http://www-frenkel.ch.cam.ac.uk Daan Frenkel's research group's homepage
  4. Martiniani. Stefano. Schrenk. K. Julian. Stevenson. Jacob D.. Wales. David J.. David J. Wales. Frenkel. Daan Frenkel. Daan. Turning intractable counting into sampling: Computing the configurational entropy of three-dimensional jammed packings. Physical Review E . 93. 1 . 012906. 2016 . 10.1103/PhysRevE.93.012906. 26871142. 1509.03964. 2016PhRvE..93a2906M. 19878643.
  5. Evans. Robert. Galindo. Amparo. Jackson. George. Lynden-Bell. Ruth. Rotenberg. Benjamin. 2018. Daan Frenkel — An entropic career. Molecular Physics. en. 116. 21–22. 2737–2741. 10.1080/00268976.2018.1514685. 0026-8976. 2018MolPh.116.2737E. 10044/1/67645. 105741733. free.
  6. Samoray. Chris. QnAs with Daan Frenkel. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114. 33. 2017. 8667–8668. 0027-8424. 10.1073/pnas.1712622114. 28760950 . 5565480 . 2017PNAS..114.8667S . free.
  7. Web site: Daniel Frenkel - Biography . 30 January 2017 . 19 October 2013 . Kaiser Dana . https://web.archive.org/web/20170130163651/http://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Frenkel_Daniel/CV . 30 January 2017 . dead .
  8. Web site: Professor Daan Frenkel ForMemRS . 30 January 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161120013917/http://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/person/df246 . 20 November 2016 . dead .
  9. Allen. Rosalind J.. Rosalind J. Allen. Frenkel. Daan. ten Wolde. Pieter Rein. Simulating rare events in equilibrium or nonequilibrium stochastic systems. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 124. 2. 2006. 024102. 0021-9606. 10.1063/1.2140273. 16422566. cond-mat/0509499. 2006JChPh.124b4102A. 9409013.
  10. Book: Elsevier. Understanding Molecular Simulation - 2nd Edition. elsevier.com. 7 November 2001. Elsevier Science . en. 2018-10-31. 978-0-12-267351-1.
  11. Web site: NWO Spinoza Prize 2000 . nwo.nl . Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research . 11 September 2014 . 30 January 2016 . 16 March 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160316013507/http://www.nwo.nl/en/research-and-results/programmes/spinoza+prize/spinoza+laureates/overview+by+year/2000 . dead .
  12. Web site: Daan Frenkel . Dutch . Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences . 14 July 2015 . 15 July 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150715090129/https://www.knaw.nl/nl/leden/leden/4122 . dead .
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  14. Web site: 2007 Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational Physics. 2018-10-31.
  15. Web site: Berni J. Alder CECAM Prize. cecam.org. 2018-10-31. https://web.archive.org/web/20181031173901/https://www.cecam.org/bja_prize.html. 2018-10-31. dead.
  16. Web site: 2010 Winner Soft Matter and Biophysical Chemistry Award- Daan Frenkel. rsc.org. en. 2018-10-31.
  17. Web site: The Boltzmann Medal for 2016 has been awarded during the Boltzmann Ceremony to Daan Frenkel and Yves Pomeau.. Statphys26. 2018-10-31. 2018-10-31. https://web.archive.org/web/20181031174100/https://statphys26.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/16. dead.
  18. Web site: Lorentz medal for physicist Daan Frenkel.

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