Pekka Pyykkö

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Veli Pekka Pyykkö (born October 12, 1941 in Hinnerjoki , Finland) is a retired Finnish professor of physical chemistry at the University of Helsinki . He is internationally known for his extension of the periodic table of the elements, named as the Pyykkö model for the extended periodic table , and related to his work on the relativistic effect .

Life

Pyykkö grew up in Turku and graduated from high school in 1959 at the Turun klassillinen lyseo. He studied physics, mathematics and chemistry at the University of Turku from 1959 to 1967 . Taking part in a training course in Uppsala in 1965 brought Pyykkö to quantum chemistry. In 1967 he received his doctorate in Turku with a dissertation on nuclear magnetic resonance of deuterated compounds. Quantum chemistry and nuclear magnetic resonance phenomena were also the focus of his postdoctoral research. Between 1967 and 1972 this took him to research centers in Aarhus, Gothenburg and Helsinki. From 1974 on he worked for a decade as an associate professor of quantum chemistry at Åbo Akademi University in Turku. In 1984 he followed the call of the University of Helsinki, where he was professor of chemistry research and teaching until his retirement in November 2009.

Pyykkö has received numerous research awards, including the Humboldt Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2002) and the Schrödinger Medal from the World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists (2012). From 2009 to 2012 he was President of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science . In 1995 he conducted research as a visiting professor at the Philipps University of Marburg .

Pyykkö is a member of numerous European scientific societies and academies, including the Académie Européenne des Sciences, des Arts et des Lettres, Paris (corresponding 1981, full member 1991), Finska Vetenskaps-Societeten 1985 (chairman, April 2010-April 2013), Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia 1989, Swedish Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala 1990, International Academy of Quantum Molecular Sciences, Menton 1992 (President, July 2009 - June 2012), Bavarian Academy of Sciences (corresponding) 2000, Academia Europaea 2007, the Swedish Kungliga Vetenskapsakademien (foreign member ) 2011.

Fonts

  • Relativistic Theory of Atoms and Molecules , 3 volumes, Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 1986, 1993, 2000.

Awards

literature

  • P. Schwerdtfeger (Ed.): Relativistic Electronic Structure Theory ( Festschrift for the 60th birthday), Elsevier, Amsterdam 2002 (Part 1. Fundamentals, 2002, 926 pp.) And 2004 (Part 2. Applications, 2004, 787 pp.)
  • Festschrift for the 70th birthday in Theoretical Chemistry Accounts 129 (3-5) (2011) 271–725

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b c Curriculum vitae , University of Helsinki April 25, 2012, accessed December 16, 2015
  2. ↑ Members of the Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.scientiarum.fi
  3. ^ KVA member in the chemistry category .
  4. ↑ "Pioneer of Relativistic Quantum Chemistry" , Marburg Department of Chemistry awarded Hans Hellmann Lecture 2015 to Prof. Pekka Pyykkö, accessed December 16, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Pyykkö, Pekka
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pyykkö, Veli Pekka (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish professor, professor of physical chemistry at Helsinki University
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Hinnerjoki , Finland