PictureJoyce Kaufman was born in June of 1929. She graduated from John Hopkins University. She began working for the Research Institute of Advance Studies. Joyce works in the Physics Department and is in charge of the quantum chemistry group. She researches experimental chemical physics-physiochemistry and quantum chemistry. Joyce Kaufman is the first person to ever carry out an all-valence-electron three-dimensional quantum chemical calculation.
Kaufman also researches how nicotine affects the body and how effective tranquilizer drugs are in fighting schizophrenia. Her colleagues recognize her as a mentor in the theories of ion molecule reactions.
She has many accomplishments. In 1969, she was a dame chevalier of France. She won the Maryland Chemist Award and the Garvan Medal of the American Chemical Society in 1974. She was member of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Nuclear Science Panel on Heavy Ion Sources. She was also a consultant to the National Institutes of Health and Department of Defense. She has made many breakthroughs in the chemical and physics fields in the twentieth century.
