Bernard Pullman
Bernard Pullman (born March 19, 1919 in Włocławek , Poland , † June 9, 1996 ) was a French theoretical chemist ( quantum chemistry ).
Life
Pullman studied at the Sorbonne , interrupted by World War II, during which he was a French officer in North Africa and the Middle East. In 1946 he received his licentiate and in 1948 he received his doctorate in Paris. He then worked for the CNRS and in 1954 became a professor at the Sorbonne. From 1959 he headed the quantum biochemistry department at the Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique, which he headed from 1963.
After initially dealing with quantum chemistry in general, he turned to its application to biomolecules and founded a field he called quantum biochemistry, in which he worked on predicting the carcinogenic properties of aromatics and on the interaction of drug substances with their target molecules as well as the conformation of biomolecules. Pullman worked closely with his wife Alberte Pullman (1920-2011), with whom he published various books.
He was one of the founders of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science and received its Schrödinger Medal . Pullman was a member of the Académie des Sciences and the Pontifical Academy of Sciences . He was an officer in the Legion of Honor and commander of the Ordre national du mérite .
He was honorary doctor in Liège, Uppsala, Madrid, Turin, Jerusalem and the Weizmann Institute and an honorary member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and various other national academies (India, GDR, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary). At times he was President of the International Union of Pure and Applied Biophysics.
literature
- International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, Volume 75, 1999, Issue 3 (dedicated to him)
Fonts
- with Alberte Pullman: Les Théories Electroniques de la Chimie Organique, Masson, Paris 1952 (foreword Louis de Broglie )
- La Structure Moléculaire, PUF, Paris 1953
- with Alberte Pullman: Cancérisation par les substances Chimiques et Structure Moléculaire, Masson, Paris 1955
- with Alberte Pullman: Quantum Biochemistry, New York: Interscience 1963 (French edition La Biochimie Electronique, PUF, Paris 1963)
- Editor with M. Weissbluth: Molecular Biophysics, Academic Press 1965
- The Atom in the History of Human Thought, Oxford UP 1998 (French original Paris: Fayard, 1995)
Web links
- Website at the IAQMS
- Biography, publications and academic family tree of Bernard Pullman at academictree.org
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pullman, Bernard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 19, 1919 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Włocławek |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 9, 1996 |