Jack has authored three graduate level textbooks in quantum mechanics in chemistry as well as over 250 scientific papers. He has graduated ca. 60 Ph.D. and postdoctoral students and has had numerous visiting scientists in his group. Jack is very proud of all of these friends, many of whom now hold faculty, national lab, and industrial positions throughout the world. Simons won an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship (1973), a Dreyfus Fellowship (1977), a Guggenheim Fellowship (1979), the 1983 Medal of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Sciences, and the 1998 Utah Award of the ACS. In 1989, he was appointed to the Henry Eyring Chair in Chemistry. Moreover, his teaching and research has been recognized in the form of awards from his home institution and from the ACS.