2007 Trueblood Award  to Angelo Gavezzotti

Angelo Gavezzotti is one of the foremost chemical crystallographers in the world. Over a period of more than thirty years he has deeply influenced the way we think about molecular packing in crystals. He is the author of the UNI force field (with G. Filippini), of several crystallographic computer programs, such as OPEC (Organic Packing Energy Calculations), Zip-Promet (a program for the generation of possible crystal structures) and, most recently, the Semiclassical Density Sum Method (Pixel Method) for estimating intermolecular energies, all highly innovative, widely used and successful. He is an outstanding candidate for the ACA Kenneth N. Trueblood Award, which is to recognize exceptional achievement in computational or chemical crystallography.

Award Committee:  Philip Coppens (Chair), Larry Dahl, Doug Rees, and Jim Richardson