Leo Radom

Leo Radom , (born December 13, 1944 in Shanghai ) is an Australian theoretical chemist ( quantum chemistry ).

Radom grew up in Sydney , where he studied chemistry at the University of Sydney with a bachelor's degree in 1965, a master's degree in 1966 and a doctorate in 1969. As a post-doctoral student, he was at Carnegie-Mellon from 1969 to 1972 with a Fulbright scholarship University at John A. Pople . Radom was a professor at the Australian National University (1974 to 2003 as Fellow, Senior Fellow, Professorial Fellow and Professor) and has been Professor at the University of Sydney since 2003.

Among other things, he dealt with the chemistry of free radicals and oxidative damage in biological systems, enzyme-catalyzed reactions, theoretical thermochemistry, chemistry of alkali and alkaline earth metals, hydrogen bonding and hydrogenation and gas-phase chemistry of ions.

In 1994 he received the Schrödinger Medal . He is a member of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science and the Australian Academy of Science (1988). In 2008 he received the David Craig Medal and in 2006 the Fukui Medal. He was President of WATOC until 2011 and organized its conference in Sydney in 2008. In 1982 he received a D.Sc. from the Australian National University. In 1979 he became a Fellow of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute and in 2008 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry .

Web links

• Website at the IAQMS
• Radom Group