Herschbach Prizes

For bold and architectural work, inspiring and empowering. Such work addresses fundamental, challenging, frontier questions; brings forth new perspectives and capabilities; and typically excites evangelical fervor that recruits many followers.

Inaugurated at the 21st DMC Conference chaired by Dave Chandler in 2007, these prizes recognize one experimentalist and one theorist at each meeting for their outstanding contributions to the field of molecular dynamics.

Awardees

  • 2007: Richard N. Zare and William H. Miller
  • 2009: Daniel Neumark and Donald Truhlar
  • 2011: Yuan Lee and George Schatz
  • 2013: Giacinto Scoles, J. Peter Toennies and Joel Bowman
  • 2015: W. Carl Lineberger and Millard Alexander
  • 2017: Hanna Reisler and John Tully
  • 2019: Kopin Liu and David Yarkony
  • 2023: Marsha Lester and Hua Guo
  • 2025: David Chandler and Anne McCoy
2025 DMC Chair Amy Mullin and 2023 Medalist Marsha Lester award the Herschbach Prize for Experiment to Dave Chandler.
DMC Chair Amy Mullin and 2023 Medalist Hua Guo award the Herschbach Prize for Theory to Anne McCoy.