William L. Jorgensen

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William L. Jorgensen
Born	(1949-10-05) October 5, 1949 (age 74) New York
Alma mater	Princeton University, Harvard University
Known for	OPLS force field, TIPnP, FEP
Scientific career
Fields	Computational Chemistry
Institutions	Yale University
Doctoral advisor	Elias J. Corey

William L. Jorgensen (born October 5, 1949, New York) is a Sterling Professor of Chemistry at Yale University.^[1] 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.