title: From diatomics to drugs and dividends.
abstract: The path from diatomic molecule spectroscopy to molecular modelling and drug discovery is described, along with aspects of the commercialisation of research. It is a history tightly coupled with the advances in computers over the past 50 years, but with a future full of opportunity.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QH, UK. graham.richards@chem.ox.ac.uk
authors.forename: W Graham
authors.initials: WG
authors.lastname: Richards
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation / Q000266:history*; D015195:Drug Design; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D008958:Models, Molecular; D013057:Spectrum Analysis / Q000266:history*