Kendall Houk

Kendall Newcomb Houk
Born (1943-02-27) February 27, 1943 (age 81)
Alma materHarvard University
Known forTheory of Chemical Reactivity and Selectivity
Scientific career
FieldsChemistry
InstitutionsLouisiana State University
University of Pittsburgh
University of California, Los Angeles
Doctoral advisorRobert Burns Woodward

Kendall Newcomb Houk is a Distinguished Research Professor in Organic Chemistry at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research group studies organic, organometallic, and biological reactions using the tools of computational chemistry. This work involves quantum mechanical calculations, often with density functional theory, and molecular dynamics, either quantum dynamics for small systems or force fields such as AMBER, for solution and protein simulations.