Anthony Nicholls (physicist)

Nicholls was educated at Plympton Grammar School and then from 1979 studied Physics at Oxford before joining the Institute for Molecular Biophysics at Florida State University.

There he studied quantum dispersion of excitations in biological systems with William Rhodes and in football with Bobby Bowden.

DelPhi took input from a coordinate file format of a molecule and calculated the electrostatic potential in and around the system, using a finite difference solution to the Poisson-Boltzmann equation.

As a result, Nicholls consulted with David Weininger, and decided in 1997 to found OpenEye in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

[3] OpenEye has employed a number of notable people in cheminformatics, including Roger Sayle, developer of RasMol.