Lutz Zülicke

Otto Wilhelm Lutz Zülicke (born October 2, 1936 in Bitterfeld ) is a German theoretical chemist .

life and work

After studying physics at the University of Leipzig , Zülicke worked from 1960 to 1962 as a research assistant in the Theoretical Chemistry research group at the Academy of Sciences in Leipzig with Bernhard Kockel , who also lectured on his dissertation , with which he received his doctorate at the University of Leipzig in 1965 . In 1962, Zülicke moved to the Institute for Physical Chemistry at the Academy of Sciences in Berlin , where he became a working group leader (department of theoretical chemistry) in 1972. In 1974 he completed his habilitation at theHumboldt University of Berlin . In his habilitation thesis he examined the application of the Hellmann-Feynman theorem in quantum chemistry . In 1976 and 1977 he was a visiting scientist at the Institute for Chemical Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in Moscow . In 1977 he acquired the facultas docendi from the University of Leipzig, and in 1978 he became a professor at the Academy of Sciences of the GDR. In 1986 Angela Merkel did her doctorate with him . In 1990/91 Zülicke was the managing director of the Central Institute for Physical Chemistry at the Academy of Sciences. In 1993 he became a full professor at the Institute for Chemistry at the University of Potsdam . He has now retired.

In 1975 he was awarded the Friedrich Wöhler Prize of the GDR Chemical Society (with Hans-Joachim Timpe). In 1980 he received the Joint Prize (Category I) of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR and the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences , in 1987 the Van't Hoff Medal of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR. From 1990 to 1992 he was a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR .

His research areas are theoretical chemistry, molecular structure and dynamics .

Works

• Lutz Zülicke: On the strict ab initio calculation of molecular multi-electron systems. An investigation into the electronic structure of the water molecule. Dissertation, Leipzig 1965
• Lutz Zülicke: Hellmann-Feynman relations and their applications in quantum chemistry. Habilitation thesis, Berlin 1974
• Lutz Zülicke and Evgenij E. Nikitin : Selected topics of the theory of chemical elementary processes. Springer, Berlin [ua] 1978, ISBN 3-540-08768-0
• Lutz Zülicke and Evgenij E. Nikitin : Theory of elementary chemical processes. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1985; Vieweg, Braunschweig and Wiesbaden 1985, ISBN 3-528-06869-8
• Lutz Zülicke: quantum chemistry. A course.
  • Volume 1: Basics and general methods. Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1973; Hüthig, Heidelberg 1978, ISBN 3-7785-0501-7
  • Volume 2: Atomic Structure, Chemical Bonding and Molecular Interactions. Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1985; Hüthig, Heidelberg 1985, ISBN 3-7785-0538-6
• Lutz Zülicke: Molecular Theoretical Chemistry. An introduction. Springer Spectrum, Wiesbaden [2015], ISBN 978-3-658-00488-0

literature

• Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar . 2007, p. 4189, ISBN 3-598-23616-6
• Zülicke, Lutz . In: Werner Hartkopf:The Berlin Academy of Sciences. Its members and award winners 1700–1990. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1992,ISBN 3-05-002153-5, p. 405.

Web links

• Literature by and about Lutz Zülicke in the catalog of the German National Library
• Lutz Zülicke in the Theoretical Chemistry Genealogy Project