#11thICCS Cheminformatics session dedicated to Peter Willett (who is retiring).
Val Gillet corrects this. He is *not* retiring, but reached a 40 year milestone of contribs to cheminf. Peter cannot make it today due to family reasons.
Has 53-page CV which Val is going to try to condense. 578 publications incl. 16 books. Well-known in bibliometrics and info retrieval (not just cheminf).
Most-cited is GOLD paper, then 1998 chemical similarity searching (standard ref). Another is for document clustering.
Supervised 72 PhD students. Many have gone on to leading positions in pharma, biotech and software companies around the globe. Has collaborated with most of the major pharma companies. Held editorial roles on 18 journals. Reviewer for 126. Grant proposals for 22 agencies.
Youngest ever recipient of Skolnik. First recipient of Mike Lynch Award. Only 2nd non-US recipient of COMP award. (Also lots more on the slide)
Bob Clark video tribute to Peter Willett. Tripos had first refusal on projects they funded at Sheffield. Peter understand that the last 10% of a user-friendly software took 90% of the time. He wanted the software used for real-world problems not just within the group.
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