“Professor Kenneth Merz received the 2010 ACS Award for Computers in Chemical and Pharmaceutical Research at the official Awards Ceremony on Tuesday, March 23, 2010, held in conjunction with the 239th ACS National Meeting in San Francisco, CA. This award recognizes the advances he has made in the use of quantum mechanics to solve biological and drug discovery problems. This highly prestigious international award sponsored by the ACS is given to an individual “without regard to age or nationality for outstanding achievement in the use of computers in research, development, or education in the chemical and biological sciences.”