Talk:Gustavo Scuseria

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Requested edits from article subject (May 2026)

Conflict of interest disclosure: I am the subject of this article, Gustavo E. Scuseria, Robert A. Welch Professor of Chemistry at Rice University. In accordance with WP:COI and WP:AUTOBIO I am posting here rather than editing the article directly. Each requested change below is supported by an independent secondary source. A single recent source covering most of the items is the tribute published in The Journal of Physical Chemistry A (2024) as part of a Festschrift issue:

  • Ernzerhof, M.; Van Voorhis, T.; Staroverov, V. N. "A Tribute to Gustavo E. Scuseria." J. Phys. Chem. A 2024, 128 (50), 10737–10738. doi:10.1021/acs.jpca.4c07208

Corrections to existing content

  • Remove date of birth from the lead and infobox. [Done as appears to be unreferenced Graeme Bartlett (talk) 21:53, 28 May 2026 (UTC)]
  • Specify PhD field. The article states he earned a PhD from the University of Buenos Aires in 1983. The field was Physics. (Ernzerhof, Van Voorhis, Staroverov 2024; Rice faculty profile) [Completed: diff Wholinator (talk) 16:21, 12 June 2026 (UTC)]
  • Update JCTC role. The article implies a current editor-in-chief role. Correct: served as Associate Editor of the Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation (2006–2009), then Co-Editor-in-Chief (2009–2021), a total of 15 years with the journal. Please rewrite in past tense with both roles. (W. L. Jorgensen, "The Beginnings of JCTC," J. Chem. Theory Comput. 2024 confirms the Associate Editor role; "The Next Twenty Years of JCTC," J. Chem. Theory Comput. 2024 confirms Co-Editor-in-Chief starting 2009.) [Completed: diff Wholinator (talk) 00:42, 17 June 2026 (UTC)]
  • Update IAQMS role. The article states "vice president since 2012." Correct status: Vice President 2012–2018; President 2023–2026. (IAQMS Board)
  • Update publication and citation figures. Current text says "more than 450 publications" and cites a 2016 figure of 45,000 citations. Updated figures: over 530 publications; more than 122,000 citations on Web of Science with h-index 126; over 240,000 citations on Google Scholar including software contributions, as of 2026. (Rice News, May 2024 reports "more than 100,000" already at that date.)

Add joint appointments

  • Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University, since 2009.
  • Professor of Materials Science and NanoEngineering, Rice University, since 2013.

(Rice faculty profile; Ernzerhof, Van Voorhis, Staroverov 2024.)

Add recent major awards and honors

  • 2024 Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational Physics, American Physical Society — "for the groundbreaking development and application of screened hybrid density functional and ab initio methods to the accurate modeling of molecules and solids." (APS announcement; Rice News)
  • 2024 WATOC Schrödinger Medal, World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists. (Rice News; see also Schrödinger Medal)
  • 2024 Materials Theory Award, Materials Research Society. (Rice News)
  • 2022 ACS Award in Theoretical Chemistry, American Chemical Society. (ACS past recipients; C&EN coverage)
  • 2017 S F Boys–A Rahman Award, Royal Society of Chemistry. (Rice News, May 2017)
  • 2015 Humboldt Research Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
  • Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher (multiple years from 2015 onward).
Comment: None of these awards appear to be independently notable in Wikipedia.  Spintendo  20:09, 19 June 2026 (UTC)
Thank you for taking the time to review this. A clarification on policy: WP:N governs whether a topic warrants its own Wikipedia article, not whether content may be included within an existing one — the guideline itself notes that "These notability guidelines do not apply to the content of articles." The applicable standards for inclusion in a biography are WP:V, WP:RS, and WP:DUE, and each award listed is supported by reliable independent sources (APS, ACS, MRS, RSC, Rice News, C&EN, and the JPCA tribute article cited at the top of this request).
That said, several of the awards do also have their own dedicated Wikipedia articles, which addresses the "independently notable" concern even on the stricter reading:
The remaining awards (ACS Award in Theoretical Chemistry, MRS Materials Theory Award, Boys–Rahman Award of the Royal Society of Chemistry) are major national-society honors routinely listed in the Wikipedia biographies of their recipients — for example Donald H. Weingarten lists his Aneesur Rahman Prize, Walter Thiel (chemist) lists his Schrödinger Medal, and many other recipients' pages do the same.
If there are specific awards on the list that you'd like additional sourcing for, or that you feel don't merit inclusion on due-weight grounds, please indicate which, and we can address each individually. ~2026-36137-45 (talk) 14:01, 21 June 2026 (UTC)

Add selected named lectures

  • Xingda Lectureship, Peking University (2024)
  • Pitzer Lecture, Ohio State University (2018)
  • Peter Pulay Lecture, University of Arkansas (2018)
  • Distinguished Israel Pollak Lecturer, Technion (2016)
  • Lise Meitner Minerva Lectureship, Tel Aviv University (2015)
  • MARVEL Distinguished Lecture, EPFL (2015)
  • Moses Gomberg Lecture, University of Michigan (2014)
  • Robert S. Mulliken Lecture, University of Georgia (1999)

(Ernzerhof, Van Voorhis, Staroverov 2024 references the lecture series.)

Add a scientific contributions paragraph

Suggested addition:

Scuseria's research contributions span density functional theory, coupled cluster theory, and methods for strongly correlated electrons. He is a co-developer of the HSE (Heyd–Scuseria–Ernzerhof) screened hybrid density functional, which is widely used in computational materials science and is specifically cited in his APS Aneesur Rahman Prize and MRS Materials Theory Award citations. His group has also contributed to linear-scaling electronic structure methods, Gaussian-orbital methods with periodic boundary conditions, symmetry-projected mean-field methods, antisymmetrized geminal power (AGP) based methods, and more recently to approaches for strongly correlated electrons based on Jordan–Wigner-type dualities.

(Ernzerhof, Van Voorhis, Staroverov 2024; APS and MRS award citations as above.)

Photo

A properly-licensed photograph will be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons under CC-BY-SA-4.0. Once available, please add it to the infobox.

Thank you for your time. Fpscientist (talk) 19:45, 25 May 2026 (UTC)

Update: the photograph has been uploaded to Wikimedia Commons and is licensed under CC-BY-SA-4.0 with VRT confirmation (Wikimedia Permissions ticket #2026060310012716). The file is File:Gustavo Scuseria 2011.jpg — please add it to the article's infobox. Thank you. Fpscientist (talk) 14:30, 5 June 2026 (UTC) [Completed: diff Wholinator (talk) 19:45, 24 June 2026 (UTC)]