Mark S. Gordon

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Mark Stephen Gordon (born January 18, 1942 in New York City ) is an American theoretical chemist .

Mark Gordon studied at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a bachelor's degree in 1963 and received his PhD in theoretical chemistry under John Anthony Pople at Carnegie Mellon University in 1967/68 . He was a postdoctoral fellow with Klaus Ruedenberg at Iowa State University . In 1970 he became an assistant professor at North Dakota State University , where he was given a full professorship in 1992 and was head of the chemistry faculty from 1981 to 1989. From 1999 he was director of applied mathematics at the Ames Laboratory of the Department of Energy . He is also a Distinguished Professor at Iowa State University.

From 1996 to 1999 he chaired the Theoretical Chemistry Section of the American Chemical Society. In 2015 he received the American Chemical Society Award in Theoretical Chemistry and in 2009 the ACS Award for Computers in Chemical and Pharmaceutical Research . He is a member of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science and became a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2001 .

He and his group developed the GAMESS (US) software package . The 1993 paper on this is one of the most cited chemistry articles.

His interest in environmental issues led to the development of special methods, such as the EFP method (Effective Fragment Potential), originally to construct an exact potential for water and later extended to any compounds, and the SIMOMM method (surface integrated molecular orbital molecular mechanics) for Surface chemistry (e.g. diffusion and growth on surfaces, heterogeneous catalysis, etching).

Fonts

  • Schmidt, Michael W .; Baldridge, Kim K .; Boatz, Jerry A .; Elbert, Steven T .; Gordon, Mark S .; Jensen, Jan H .; Koseki, Shiro; Matsunaga, Nikita; Nguyen, Kiet A .; Su, Shujun; Windus, Theresa L .; Dupuis, Michel; Montgomery, John A.: General atomic and molecular electronic structure system, Journal of Computational Chemistry, Volume 14, 1993, pp. 1347-1363.
  • Gordon, Mark S .; Schmidt, Michael W .: Advances in electronic structure theory: GAMESS a decade later, in: Dykstra, CE; Frenking, G .; Lim, KS; Scusaria, GE Theory and Applications of Computational Chemistry, the first 40 years. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2005, pp. 1167-1189

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birth and career dates for American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ^ Biographical data, publications and academic family tree of Mark S. Gordon at academictree.org, accessed on February 7, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Gordon, Mark S.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gordon, Mark Stephen (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American theoretical chemist
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City