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William L. Jorgensen (1949-present) is of Danish and American descent and was born on October 5th, 1949 in New York City. He currently serves as a Sterling Professor of Chemistry at Yale University (2009-present). Having attended high school at the Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, NH, Jorgensen then went on to receive his Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from Princeton University (1967-1970). Jorgensen’s first publication, JCAS paper in 1970 evaluates CNDO and NNDO results for organic molecules which stemmed from his close relationship with Allen and Paul Schleyer (the Allen Group) whom he spent majority of his Princeton summers working for. His interest in Quantum Chemistry peaked at 18 during his research at Princeton despite the lack of power computers to study complicated systems. Jorgensen further went on to receive his Ph.D. from Harvard University (1970-1975) under the now Nobel Laureate (1990) Elias J. Corey, where he worked on the LAHSA Project, an artificially intelligence program for retrosynthetic analysis based on the retrieval of information from a large database of known organic reactions. Jorgensen further worked his way up from an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry (1975-1979) to the Herbert C. Brown Professor of Chemistry (1985-1990) at Purdue University. With over 400 publications in his name, and soaring past 600 guest lectures, Jorgensen was most recently elected to the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science (IAQMS) - a distinguished academy founded in 1967 with former luminary members such as de Broglie, Hund and Pauling.