Imre Csizmadia
Imre Gyula Csizmadia (born October 30, 1932 in Budapest ) is a Hungarian-Canadian theoretical chemist ( quantum chemistry , organic chemistry ).
Csizmadia studied chemical engineering at the TU Budapest with a diploma in 1956 (but was also influenced by the theoretical chemist András Messmer ) and then went to Canada, where he received his master's degree in physical organic chemistry from the University of British Columbia in 1959 and in 1962 Lloyd Douglas Hayward with a Srbeit in photochemistry doctorate was. As a post-doctoral student he was at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1962) with John C. Slater and in 1964 at the University of London and began to study quantum chemistry. He then taught at the University of Toronto , where he was given a full professorship in 1973 and retired in 1998. In addition, from 2002 to 2005 he was professor of medicinal chemistry at the University of Szeged , where he has been adjunct professor of chemical informatics since 2008. He has an honorary professorship at Semmelweis University .
In 1963 he carried out the first quantum mechanical (based on Gaussian wave functions) computer calculation of an organic molecule ( formic acid fluoride ) on an IBM 709 at MIT . The POLYATOM program used was the first computer chemistry program with Gauss wave functions. He is primarily concerned with theoretical organic chemistry (including oligopeptides and their conformational behavior, behavior of biomolecules under oxidative stress) and theoretical studies to support the development of new active ingredients.
He is honorary doctor of the Eötvös Loránd University and the Semmelweis University in Budapest and the Universidad Nacional de San Luis (UNSL) in Argentina. Csizmadia was visiting scholar and visiting professor in Canada, Argentina, Japan, China, England, Germany, France, Spain, Italy and Hungary.
From 1987 to 1990 he was the first President of WATOC . In 1990 he received the Steacie Award.
Fonts
- Theory and practice of MO calculations on organic molecules, Elsevier 1976
- with R. Poirier, R. Kari: Handbook of Gaussian Basis Sets, Elsevier 1985
- with F. Ruff: Organic reactions: equilibria, kinetics and mechanism, Elsevier 1994
Web links
- Biography at the Drug Discovery Research Center
- Imre Csizmadia in the Theoretical Chemistry Genealogy Project
Individual evidence
- ^ Biographical data, publications and academic family tree of Imre Gyula Csizmadia at academictree.org, accessed on January 28, 2018.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Csizmadia, Imre |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Csizmadia, Imre Gyula |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian-Canadian chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 30, 1932 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Budapest |