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| 1885-1962 |
Links to the Nobel e-Museum biography |
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Model of the electrons around an atom. | |
| 1902-1984 |
Links to the Nobel e-Museum biography |
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1st generation, eminent pure theoretician: ".. we now can calculate all of chemistry .." |
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| 1768-1830 |
Biography, in German |
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Fourier Method - sin, cos and all that. | |
| Hamilton, Sir William Rowland | 1805-1865 |
Links to a good biography |
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"Hamiltonian" (operator). |
| 1901-1976 |
Links to the Nobel e-Museum biography |
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Listen to the voice
of Heisenberg in 1967.
An exhibition on Heisenberg by the American Institute of Physics. A very brief video glimpse at Heisenberg (BR alpha). 2:47 min; 5 MB; encoded with DivX - mpeg4. The necessary decoder, 5.67 MB, a good-natured one, may at present (12/2003) be downloaded from DivX (stay independent: rather use this one than ... - you know what I mean): http://www.divx.com/divx |
th generation, FOUNDER. | |
| 1900-1958 |
Links to the Nobel e-Museum biography. |
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Spin. | ||
| 1887-1961 |
Links to the Nobel e-Museum biography |
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0th generation, FOUNDER. |
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| 1868-1951 |
with a link to a good autobiography |
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0th generation, early analysis of spectral lines |
name + link |
lifetime |
materials |
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add'l links |
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| 1926- |
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2nd generation, applications. Ligand Field Theory. | |
| 1923- |
Interview |
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2nd generation, applications. | |
| 1911-1972 |
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1st generation, Published about Gaussians since 1950 !! |
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| 1910-1974 |
Biography by R. McWeeny. |
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1st generation, Mathematician, QC theory. Huckel appl's. |
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| 1919- |
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2nd generation. | |
| 1920- |
Interview |
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No longer on the net, from my archives, links to a short biography. |
1st generation, very influential. spreading QC. |
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| Del Re, Giuseppe | 1932- |
Interview |
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2nd generation, father of the semiemp. Del-Re-method. |
| Dewar, Michael J. S. | 1918-1997 |
Links to a good biography. |
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For further insights into Dewar, read his
fascinating autobiography: |
2nd generation, father of MINDO, AM. |
| Fischer - Hjalmars, Inga | 1918- |
Interview |
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1st + 2nd generation, famous theor. Huckel paper, later appl. to peptides and metals. |
| Fock, Vladimir A. | 1898-1974 |
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1st generation, Hartree-Fock method!! |
| Fraga, Serafin | 1931- |
Fraga's Faculty page at Univ. of Alberta, Canada |
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2nd generation. Early work in SCF theory, atomic data. Always interested in biochem. structures. |
| Freed, Karl | 1942- |
Freed's Faculty page at Univ. of Chicago. |
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3rd generation. Constant interest in basic theory and methods on the electronic structure of molecules. |
| Hall, George G. | 1925- |
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2nd generation, Mathematician. Important work in early semiempirical theory. Described (independently of Roothaan) the foundations of the SCF LCAO-MO theory. |
| Hartree, Douglas Rayner | 1897-1958 |
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At times the St. Andrews server seems to be off-net. In this case try here. | 1th generation, Hartree-Fock method!! |
| Heitler, Walter | 1904 - 1981 |
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1st generation. | ||
| Hoffmann, Roald | 1937- |
Links to the Nobel e-Museum autobiography |
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Hoffmann's Faculty page at Cornell Univ. |
3nd generation,
father of the EHT - method. |
| Hückel (Huckel), Erich | 1896-1980 |
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1st generation, Hückel Theory
FOUNDING FATHER. |
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Hund, Friedrich (1) Hund, Friedrich (2) |
1896-1997 | Links presently to 2 available yet very brief biographies (more to come). |
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1st generation Worked on MO in parallel to Mulliken. |
| Jug, Karl | 1939- |
Interview and Video Clip yet to come |
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3rd generation, father of SINDO. |
| Julg, André | 1926-2003 |
Writes his own story and an Interview |
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2nd generation, father of the LCAO-ameliorée method. |
| Kotani, Masao | 1906-1993 |
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1st generation, Integral Tables! Father of the Japanese Efforts in Quantum Chemistry. |
| Lennard-Jones, Sir John Edward | 1894 - 1954 |
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0th generation, Introducing quantum
chemistry in the UK.
FOUNDING FATHER. |
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London, Fritz Wolfgang |
1900-1954 |
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1st generation. | ||
| Longuet-Higgins, Christopher | 1923-2004 |
2 short biographies |
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1st + 2nd
generation, changed with 40 to exp'l psychology. |
| Lowdin, Per-Olov | 1916-2000 |
Interview and Video Clip yet to come |
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Univ. of Florida Quantum Theory Project. |
1st + 2nd
generation, trained 3000 quantum chemists. |
| Matsen, Frederick A. | 1913- |
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2nd generation, group theory spin-free QC. |
| McWeeny, Roy | 1924- |
Interview |
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2nd generation, mainly theor. work. |
| Mulliken, Robert Sanderson | 1896-1986 |
Links to the Nobel e-Museum biography |
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1st generation,
Molecular Orbital FOUNDING FATHER. |
| Murrell, John N. | 1932- |
Interview |
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3rd generation, extremely successful introductory QC book in the 70s. |
| Ohno, Kimio | 1926- |
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2nd generation of Japanese quantum chemists.
Studied under Kotani, worked with Itoh, Nakamura, Tanabe, Yoshimine and others. |
| Pariser, Rudolph | 1923- |
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2nd generation,
PPP co-founder. Also industrial chemist at Dupont de Nemours. |
| Parr, Robert G. | 1921- |
Interview |
120 KByte |
Parr's Faculty page |
1st + 2nd generation,
PPP co-founder, much later DFT. |
| Pauling, Linus Carl | 1901-1994 |
Links to the Nobel e-Museum biography |
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1st generation,
Valence Bond FOUNDING FATHER. |
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| Pople, John A. | 1925- | Pople's autobiography at the Nobel Foundation |
120 KByte |
Pople's Faculty page at Northwestern. |
1st + 2nd generation,
PPP co-founder, INDO, CINDO, GAUSSIANS, DFT. |
| Pullman, Alberte and Bernard | 1920- |
Interview |
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1st generation, very wide influence, espec'y in France. |
| Roothaan, C.C.J. | 1918- |
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1st generation, THE paper on LCAO-MO theory in 1951. |
| Rüdenberg, Klaus | 1920- |
Rüdenberg's Faculty page. |
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2ndStrongly present in the early literature, say 1960-75. Mathem. rigor and comput. honesty for some, "too much calculating" for those days, others claim. |
| Salem, Lionel | 1937- |
Interview |
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2nd generation, QC-prof., later banking, finally Popularization of Knowledge, Prof. |
| Sandorfy, Camille | 1920- |
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2nd generation. Interesting his book in 1959 : Les spectres électroniques en chimie théorique. Translated into many languages. |
| Segal, Gerald A. | 1934- |
Segal's Faculty page at USC |
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2nd generation. Fathered with Pople and Santry the famous CNDO-method. |
| Slater, John Clarke | 1900-1976 |
A broader and liberal biography of J.C. Slater by the American Philosophical Society. |
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Another nicely done biography is (was) the one from Augustana College, USA, which you may get here. If this link seems not to be available (any longer?) you may try my archive here , some links then, however, being off-net. | 1st generation, wide influence. Important: Slater screening constant, the Xalpha-method. |
| Tietz, Horst | 1921- |
Interview |
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Assistant to Erich Huckel 1948-1951. |
| Van Vleck, J.H. |
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Van Vleck's autobiography at the Nobel Foundation. |
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1st generation,
developed Crystal Field Theory, magnetic theory of metal ions. Famous: The Theory of Electric and Magnetic Susceptibilities. |
| Zerner, Michael C. | 1940-2000 |
Links to Zerner's biography |
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2nd generation, ZINDO. |
| Bayliss, Noel Stanley |
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Bayliss, like H. Kuhn, worked on the Free Electron Model in the early 1950s. | ||
| Dahl, Jens Peder |
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Dahl was Ballhausen's first Ph.D. student working
in the area of complexed transition metal ions. He later continued this work on his own and still later he entered into phase space and connected theories. |
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| Goeppert-Mayer, Maria |
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Links to the Nobel e-Museum biography |
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M. Goeppert-Mayer and A.L. Sklar : Calculations of the lower excited levels of benzene. J. Chem. Phys., 19 , 799-800 (1951). | Just think of the (in)-famous paper (some 20 mistakes!) in semiempirical quantum chemistry of Goeppert-Mayer and Sklar in the 1950ies. PS : Due to R.G. Parr (see the interview) her student Sklar didn't give a damn about it:{"Oh, sorry". And period.}. |
| Koopmans, Tjalling C. |
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Links to the Nobel e-Museum biography.
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The Prize (not Nobel, similar) was in Economics!! Yet think of: "Koopmans' theorem!" |
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| Kutzelnigg, Werner |
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Interview |
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Kutzelnigg's Faculty page at the Univ. Bochum, Germany. | 3rd generation, ab initio. |
| Moffitt, William |
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Obituary |
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Early participant in Longuet-Higgins' group. |
| Peyerimhoff, Sigrid D. |
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Peyerimhoff's Faculty page at the Univ. Bonn, Germany. | 3rd generation, ab initio. |
| Pritchard, Huw O. |
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Pritchard and Skinner brought out 2 important papers 1953/55 which for many years furnished a solid reference for pure theoreticians. | ||
| Sinanoglu, Oktay |
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Including a vast amount of materials, pictures. |
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| Sponer, Hertha |
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Hertha Sponer, a physicist, was one of the first women who worked in the field of spectra and applied quantum mechanics. |
| Cotton, F.Albert |
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| Gray, Harry B. |
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Gray's Faculty page at Caltech. |
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| Jaffé, Hans H. |
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| Jørgensen, C. Klixbüll |
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Christian Klixbüll Jørgensen was an early user of QC in inorganic chemistry - at a time (1950s) when transition metal spectra and crystal field theory were going strong ... |
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| Karfunkel, H. R. |
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Interview with an "industrial" quantum chemist at Novartis |
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3rd generation. |
| Orchin, Milton |
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Orchin's Faculty page at the Univ. of Cincinnati, USA. |
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- - | Organic chemist who, together with H.H. Jaffe, wrote another very famous and popular book on the application of quantum theory in chemistry: Symmetry, Orbitals and Spectra By all students of, say, 1970-2000 known as SOS - liked and feared depending on the ability of the lecturer concerned. |
| Orgel, Leslie E. |
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Orgel's Faculty page. at the Salk Institute. |
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- - | Inorganic and theoretical chemist by first training, wrote one of the most-read and used books on ligand field theory of the 60's. |
| Roberts, John D. |
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Roberts'
Faculty page at Caltech. |
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Some sketchy biographical data. |
Organic chemist, wrote a beautifully simple and highly successful little book (16 printings, translated into German, Japanese and Russian)about Huckel theory for organic chemists in the feeling of those times - 1961! |
| Streitwieser, Andrew |
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Streitwieser's Berkeley Faculty page. |
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| Wheland, George W. |
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Organic chemist, wrote, among others, two books on resonance theory. In 1949 he proposed the introduction of a parameter ('omega-technique') to better adapt Huckel theory to charges and which appeared quite promising at the time, since it also reduced the (manual) calculating effort. Occasionally still used in teaching Huckel. |
| Theoretical Chemistry, ETH Zuerich, Switzerland. | " Theoretical Chemistry im www für Studierende und Interessierte." |
Fairly extensive. |
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| Theoretical Chemistry, University of Stuttgart, Germany. | Links to Theoretical Chemistry: Journals, Societies, Software. |
Alphabetical link-listings of Theochem. Depts. worldwide. |
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| National Academy of Sciences, USA | Links to the NAS homepage. |
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http://www.nap.edu/
readingroom/books/
biomems/ |
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| Royal Society [London] | Links to the Royal Society [London] homepage. |
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An extensive listing of biographical data, not only from chemistry and physics. |
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| TH Physik, Uni-Frankfurt, Germany | "A Picture Gallery of Famous Physicists." |
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| International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science | The IAQMS was created in Menton (close to Nizza, France) in 1967 by Daudel, Löwdin, Parr, Pople and B. Pullman ... | Most, but not all, biographical entries of these members are public. Sometimes this server appears to be unreachable. |
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American Institute of Physics. Web Sites for the History of Science. |
Presently (Feb. 2002) good exhibit on Heisenberg. Don't miss it! | Very recommendable, good contents, good design. |
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| Use a Russian search machine for | Search machine matched to this site here by Dr. Nikolai N. Kostyukovich of the The National Academy of Sciences of Belarus. | Just look around a bit - thinking 'global' and all that ... |
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