Remembering the Work of Phillip L. Geissler: A Coda to His Scientific Trajectory

Gregory R Bowman; Stephen J Cox; Christoph Dellago; Kateri H DuBay; Joel D Eaves; Daniel A Fletcher; Layne B Frechette; Michael Grünwald; Katherine Klymko; JiYeon Ku; Ahmad K Omar; Eran Rabani; David R Reichman; Julia R Rogers; Andreana M Rosnik; Grant M Rotskoff; Anna R Schneider; Nadine Schwierz; David A Sivak; Suriyanarayanan Vaikuntanathan; Stephen Whitelam; Asaph Widmer-Cooper

doi:10.1146/annurev-physchem-101422-030127

Remembering the Work of Phillip L. Geissler: A Coda to His Scientific Trajectory

Annu Rev Phys Chem. 2023 Apr 24:74:1-27. doi: 10.1146/annurev-physchem-101422-030127. Epub 2023 Jan 31.

Authors

Gregory R Bowman¹, Stephen J Cox², Christoph Dellago³, Kateri H DuBay⁴, Joel D Eaves⁵, Daniel A Fletcher^{6

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8}, Layne B Frechette⁹, Michael Grünwald¹⁰, Katherine Klymko¹¹, JiYeon Ku¹², Ahmad K Omar¹³, Eran Rabani^{14

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15}, David R Reichman¹⁶, Julia R Rogers¹⁷, Andreana M Rosnik¹⁸, Grant M Rotskoff¹⁹, Anna R Schneider²⁰, Nadine Schwierz²¹, David A Sivak²², Suriyanarayanan Vaikuntanathan²³, Stephen Whitelam²⁴, Asaph Widmer-Cooper²⁵

Affiliations

¹ Bioengineering, Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
² Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
³ Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
⁴ Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA; email: dubay@virginia.edu.
⁵ Department of Chemistry, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, USA.
⁶ Department of Bioengineering and Biophysics Program, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA.
⁷ Division of Biological Systems and Engineering, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA.
⁸ Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, San Francisco, California, USA.
⁹ Martin A. Fisher School of Physics, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA; email: laynefrechette@brandeis.edu.
¹⁰ Department of Chemistry, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
¹¹ National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA.
¹² R&D Center, Eloi Materials (EML) Co., Ltd., Suwon, Republic of Korea.
¹³ Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA.
¹⁴ Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA.
¹⁵ The Raymond and Beverly Sackler Center of Computational Molecular and Materials Science, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
¹⁶ Department of Chemistry, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
¹⁷ Department of Systems Biology, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA; email: jr4182@cumc.columbia.edu.
¹⁸ Atomwise, San Francisco, California, USA.
¹⁹ Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA; email: rotskoff@stanford.edu.
²⁰ Form Energy, Berkeley, California, USA.
²¹ Institute of Physics, University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany.
²² Department of Physics, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada; email: dsivak@sfu.ca.
²³ Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
²⁴ Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA; email: swhitelam@lbl.gov.
²⁵ School of Chemistry, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

PMID: 36719975
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-physchem-101422-030127

Abstract

Phillip L. Geissler made important contributions to the statistical mechanics of biological polymers, heterogeneous materials, and chemical dynamics in aqueous environments. He devised analytical and computational methods that revealed the underlying organization of complex systems at the frontiers of biology, chemistry, and materials science. In this retrospective we celebrate his work at these frontiers.

Keywords: algorithm development; aqueous environments; biography; biological systems; chemical dynamics; model development; statistical mechanics.

Publication types

Review
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Chemistry, Physical
Humans
Male
Physics*
Retrospective Studies