Jan Almlöf

Jan Erik Almlöf (born April 1, 1945 in Malung ; † January 16, 1996 ) is a Swedish theoretical chemist ( quantum chemistry ).

Almlöf studied at Uppsala University with a candidate degree in 1967 and a licentiate in 1971, where he received his doctorate in 1974 with a dissertation on hydrogen bonding. His academic teachers were Ivar Olovsson and Björn O. Roos . As a post-doctoral student , he was with Enrico Clementi at IBM's Almaden Research Center in San José. In 1976 he became a lecturer at the University of Oslo, where he became professor in 1982. From 1985 he was a professor at the University of Minnesota , where he was also a Fellow of the Supercomputer Center. He was also an adjunct professor at Tromsø University and visiting professor in Lund, Strasbourg and the ETH Zurich.

In 1989 he was one of the initiators of the European Summer School in Quantum Chemistry. In Oslo he transferred quantum chemistry programs to the Cray-1 and he was later on the advisory board for applications in chemistry at Cray Research.

In the 1970s he developed the MOLECULE program for calculating molecular structures using Hartree-Fock methods. He is best known for introducing direct methods to quantum chemistry.

He also introduced Atomic Natural Orbit (ANO) basis functions.

In 1993 he received the Schrödinger Medal .

literature

• Obituary by colleagues and students in Theoretical Chemistry Accounts, Volume 97, 1997, pp. 3–4, pdf (with list of publications)

Web links

• Homepage

Individual evidence

1. ^ Biographical data, publications and academic family tree of Jan E. Almlöf at academictree.org, accessed on December 31, 2017.