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Tribute to Lawrence R. Pratt

Ashbaugh, Henry S.; Asthagiri, Dilipkumar; Beck, Thomas L.; Rempe, Susan R.

Lawrence Pratt’s career following completion of his Ph.D. at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign has taken him from Harvard University, to the University of California, Berkeley, and Los Alamos National Laboratory. Most recently, he joined the faculty of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Tulane University in 2008. Over his career Lawrence has been a leader in theoretical physical chemistry, making influential contributions to a number of areas including the theory of the hydrophobic effect, the development of transition path sampling, contributions to orbital free density functional theory, and the theory of liquids and solutions.