The Physical Chemistry Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) awarded Horia Metiu, a professor in the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry at UC Santa Barbara, with the 2015 ACS Award in Theoretical Chemistry. The award is "intended to recognize the most outstanding scientific achievements of the members of the division." This award recognizes Metiu's outstanding contributions to the development of the theory of surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy and plasmonics and the time-dependent quantum theory of molecular dissasociation.