Dieter Cremer

Dieter Cremer (born April 22, 1944 , † April 13, 2017 ) was a German chemist ( theoretical chemistry ).

Cremer studied chemistry at the University of Cologne as a scholarship holder of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes with a diploma in 1969 under Harald Günther and his doctorate in 1972. As a post-doctoral student he was at Carnegie Mellon University with John Anthony Pople until 1974 . In 1979 he completed his habilitation in Cologne and held a Heisenberg professorship there from 1984 to 1989. In 1990 he became a professor at the University of Gothenburg and from 1992 was director of the theoretical chemistry department. In 2005 he became a professor at the University of the Pacific and director of its nanotechnology program. From 2009 he was a professor at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.

He dealt with quantum chemistry (including density functional theory, relativistic methods, ab initio calculations), molecular nanotechnology, computer-aided drug design, conformational analysis, theoretical analysis of reaction mechanisms, calculation and analysis of NMR spectra and vibration spectra, the fundamentals of chemical bonds and related concepts (voltage , Electron delocalization, aromaticity).

In 1984 he received the Chemistry Prize of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen and in 1998 he was a Mulliken Lecturer at the University of Georgia .

literature

• Elfi Kraka: Dieter Cremer's contribution to the field of theoretical chemistry , Quantum Chemistry, Volume 119, 2019, Issue 6, online

Web links

• Literature by and about Dieter Cremer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Theoretical Chemistry Genealogy Project