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Boyd DB, Lipkowitz KB, History of the Gordon Research Conferences on Computational Chemistry. In Lipkowitz KB, Boyd DB, editors. Reviews in Computational Chemistry, Vol. 14. New York Wiley-VCH, 2000. p. 399-439. 

Donald B. Boyd and Kenny B. Lipkowitz, History of the Gordon Research Conferences on Computational Chemistry. 

We would like to add that Peter was an invited speaker at the Symposium on Molecular Mechanics (held in Indianapolis in 1983) and was co-chairman of the second Gordon Research Conference on Computational Chemistry in 1988. As we pointed out in the Preface of Volume 13 (p. xiii) of this book series, no one had been cited more frequently in Reviews of Computational Chemistry than Peter. Peter—and the others—will be missed. 

LAYING THE GROUNDWORK FOR A GORDON RESEARCH CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY... 

The First Gordon Research Conference on Computational Chemistry 403... 

Table 2 Financial Supporters of Past Gordon Research Conferences on Computational Chemistry"...

Figure 1 Group photo taken at the Gordon Research Conference on Computational Chemistry, Donald B. Boyd (Lilly) and Kenneth B. Lipkowitz (lUPUI), Co-Chairmen, August 18-22, 1986, Colby-Sawyer College, New London, New Hampshire. 

The metamorphosis and coalescence of various computational interests of chemists into modern computational chemistry occurred in many steps. A landmark event in this change was perhaps the first Gordon Research Conference on Computational Chemistry, which was held 10 years ago in August 1986, in the village of New London, New Hampshire. In 1984, the editors of this book series had written a proposal to the Board of Trustees of the Gordon Research Conferences saying ... 

At the 1986 and 1988 Gordon Research Conferences on Computational Chemistry, we put forward a similar but more far-reaching definition Quantitative modeling of chemical phenomena by computer-implemented techniques. Further, in a review on how supercomputing is impacting the field [D. B. Boyd and K. B. Lipkowitz, Supercomputing, Spring, 23 (1988)], we went so far as to proffer that computational chemistry consists of those aspects of chemical research that are expedited or rendered practical by computers. 

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