George G. Hall
George Garfield Hall (born March 5, 1925 in Belfast - † May 6, 2018 ) was a British applied mathematician , best known for his work in quantum chemistry .
Hall received his PhD in 1950 from John Lennard-Jones at the University of Cambridge . In doing so, independently of Clemens CJ Roothaan , he discovered the Roothaan-Hall equations in quantum chemistry, a Hartree-Fock method with non-orthogonal basis functions. As a post-doctoral student , he continued his research in theoretical chemistry at Cambridge and became a Fellow of St John's College in 1953 . From 1955 to 1962 he was a lecturer in mathematics at Imperial College London . In 1957/58 he was with Per-Olov Löwdin in Uppsala. In 1962 he became professor of mathematics at the University of Nottingham , where he stayed until his retirement in 1982. In 1983 he went to Kyoto University , but returned to Nottingham in 1988 as Emeritus Professor and Senior Research Fellow at the Shell Center for Mathematical Education .
He holds honorary doctorates from the University of Cambridge (Sc.D.), the National University of Ireland in Maynooth and the University of Kyoto and a member of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science (IAQMS).
Fonts
- Matrices and Tensors, Pergamon 1963
- Applied Group Theory, Longman 1967
- Molecular Solid State Physics, Springer 1991, ISBN 978-3-642-84461-4
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ George Garfield Hall. family-announcements.co.uk, May 11, 2018, accessed July 4, 2018 .
- ^ GG Hall: The Molecular Orbital Theory of Chemical Valency. VIII. A Method of Calculating Ionization Potentials . In: Proceedings of the Royal Society A . tape 205 , no. 1083 , March 7, 1951, p. 541-552 , doi : 10.1098 / rspa.1951.0048 .
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| SURNAME | Hall, George G. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hall, George Garfield (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British applied mathematician and theoretical chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 5, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Belfast |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 6, 2018 |