Nicholas C. Cell phone

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Nicholas Charles Handy (born June 17, 1941 in Swindon , Wiltshire , † October 2, 2012 ) was a British theoretical chemist. He dealt with various methods of quantum chemistry and theoretical spectroscopy.

Handy, whose father was a grain dealer and his grandparents a farmer, studied in Cambridge and received his doctorate there in 1967 with Samuel Francis Boys (Frank Boys) in quantum theoretical chemistry (dissertation: Correlated wave functions of atoms and molecules). He then became a Fellow of St. Catherine's College, Cambridge. As a post-doctoral student he was at Johns Hopkins University with Robert Parr and calculated the asymptotics of Hartree-Fock orbitals. and was professor of quantum chemistry there. After Frank Boy's death in 1972, he took over his research group, became a demonstrator and, in 1977, a lecturer in Cambridge.

In 1978 he spent a sabbatical year at the University of California, Berkeley , with Bill Miller and Fritz Schaefer. He dealt with the calculation of the vibration states of polyatomic molecules and with Schaefer he dealt with CI methods and he published Nick's Trick . He was also with Robert Parr at the University of North Carolina, where he studied bounds on Coulomb integrals. In Cambridge he developed a full CI method with Peter Knowles . He also worked with Stuart Carter on the rotational-vibration spectra of polyatomic molecules with a given potential surface.

At the end of the 1980s he began to deal with density functional theory (DFT) and implemented it in the CADPAC code (originally developed by his colleague Roger Amos). After that, he and his group turned almost entirely to DFT.

In 1989 he became a Reader at Cambridge and in 1991 he was given a personal chair. In 2004 he retired.

In 2011 he received the American Chemical Society Award in Theoretical Chemistry . He was a member of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science , whose secretary he was from 1991 to 2000. In 1990 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society and in 2002 received its Leverhulme Medal. In 1997 he received the Schrödinger Medal of the WATOC. He is an honorary doctorate from the Université Marne-la-Vallée.

He last lived in Thornthwaite in the Lake District . In 1967 he married Carole Gates, with whom he has two sons. He died of pancreatic cancer.

literature

  • David Clary, Peter Knowles, David Tozer: Nicholas Charles Handy, Biogr. Memoirs Fellows Royal Society 2015, pdf

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data, publications and academic family tree of Nicholas C. Handy at academictree.org, accessed on February 8, 2018.
  2. ↑ Handy, Schaefer, On the evaluation of analytic energy derivatives for correlated wave functions, J. Chem. Phys., 81, 1984, pp. 5031-5033
  3. ↑ Handy, Knowles, A new determinant based full configuration action method, Chem. Phys. Lett., 111, 1984, pp. 315-321
  4. ↑ Handy, Knowles, Unlimited full configuration interaction calculations. J. Chem. Phys. Volume 91, 1989, pp. 2396-239
personal data
SURNAME Handy, Nicholas C.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cell phone, Nicholas Charles
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British chemist
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Swindon
DATE OF DEATH October 2, 2012