Charlotte Froese Fischer

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Charlotte Froese Fischer.

Charlotte Froese Fischer (born September 21, 1929 in Nikolejevka , Ukrainian SSR ) is an American applied mathematician, known for numerical calculations of atomic structures (multi-configuration Hartree-Fock methods , MCHF).

She came from a Mennonite family who emigrated to Canada (Chilliwack in British Columbia ) via Germany in time for the outbreak of World War II . She studied at the University of British Columbia with a bachelor's degree in 1952 and a master's degree in 1954 and received her doctorate in 1957 from the University of Cambridge under Douglas Rayner Hartree ( Self-consistent Field Calculations with Exchange ). There she heard Paul Dirac's quantum mechanics lecture and assisted Hartree in calculating atomic structures with the EDSAC computer.

Then she was back at the University of British Columbia, where she became an assistant professor (and later professor) in 1957 and set up her first computer science courses. Fischer was also a programmer and consultant for the Pacific Oceanography Group in British Columbia from 1957 to 1959 . From 1968 to 1975 she was professor at the University of Waterloo and from 1974 to 1979 professor of computer science at Pennsylvania State University and 1980 at Vanderbilt University .

1963/64 she was visiting professor at Harvard University ( Harvard College Observatory ).

In 1991 she became a Fellow of the American Physical Society , notably for her prediction of the negative ion of calcium. From 1964 to 1967 she was one of the first women to be a Sloan Research Fellow . In 1995 she became an external member of the Royal Physiographical Society in Lund and in 2004 of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences . In 2016 she was inducted into the Royal Society of Canada .

She was married to computer science professor Patrick C. Fischer (1935–2011) since 1967 and has one child.

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  1. ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ↑ Fischer, Jolanta Lagowski, SH Vosko Ground states of Ca and Sc from two theoretical points of view , Physical Review Letters, Volume 59, 1987, pp 2263-2266
  4. ↑ Class of 2016 / List of New Fellows ( Memento of the original from September 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; accessed on September 12, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / rsc-src.ca
personal data
SURNAME Fischer, Charlotte Froese
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American applied mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Nikolejevka , Ukrainian SSR