Henry F. Schaefer
Henry Frederick "Fritz" Schaefer III. (Born June 8, 1944 in Grand Rapids , Michigan) is an American theoretical chemist .
life and work
Schaefer graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a bachelor's degree in chemical physics in 1966 and received his doctorate from Stanford University in 1969 . He was then a professor at the University of California, Berkeley from 1969 to 1987 and from 1987 professor at the University of Georgia , where he is director of the Center for Computational Chemistry and Graham Perdue professor at Franklin College of Arts and Sciences .
In 1979/80 he was founding director of the Institute for Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Texas at Austin and was Wilfred T. Doherty Professor there . He was visiting professor at the University of Paris, the ETH Zurich and the Australian National University .
Schaefer deals with theoretical and computational quantum chemistry ( ab initio calculations). He is involved in over 1300 publications (2012). Some of his publications led to the review of traditional models, such as his prediction of the structure of methylene from theoretical quantum mechanical calculations alone in 1970 (and contradicting Gerhard Herzberg's model ), which gave the reputation of ab initio calculations a boost.
In 1972 he became a Sloan Research Fellow . He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (1977) and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (since 2004), a member of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science and he was long chair of the World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists (WATOC).
Schaefer has published and lectured on religion and science. He expressed sympathy for intelligent design .
Honors
- 1979 American Chemical Society Award in Pure Chemistry
- 1992 Centennary Medal from the Royal Society of Chemistry
- 2003 American Chemical Society Award in Theoretical Chemistry
- 2003 Ira Remsen Award
- 2004 Joseph O. Hirschfelder Prize
- 2011 Ide P. Trotter Prize from Texas A&M University
- 2012 Humboldt Research Award
- 2013 Chemical Pioneer Award
- 2019 American Institute of Chemists Gold Medal
Fonts
- Quantum Chemistry: The Development of Ab Initio Methods in Molecular Electronic Structure Theory. Dover Pub., 2004
literature
- About the author. In: Henry F. Schaefer III: Science and Christianity: Conflict Or Coherence? The Apollos Trust, Watkinsville 2003, ISBN 0-9742975-0-X , pp. 181-184 ( digitized version )
Web links
- Website of his institute
- Biography at IAQMS
- Biography at the Discovery Institute
- Literature by and about Henry F. Schaefer in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Henry Schaefer in the Theoretical Chemistry Genealogy Project
Individual evidence
- ↑ Chemical Pioneer Award, University of Georgia ( Memento of the original from October 17, 2013 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.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schaefer, Henry F. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schaefer, Fritz; Schaefer, Henry Frederick III. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 8, 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Grand Rapids , Michigan |