Reinhart Ahlrichs
Reinhart Ahlrichs (born January 16, 1940 in Göttingen ; † October 12, 2016 in Heidelberg ) was a German theoretical chemist .
Life
Ahlrichs studied physics at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and at the Georg August University in Göttingen , where he received his diploma in 1965 . In 1968 he did his doctorate with Werner A. Bingel (1922–2011).
From 1968 to 1969 Ahlrichs was a research assistant or assistant to Werner Kutzelnigg (1933–2019) at the University of Göttingen.
As a post-doctoral researcher ( postdoctoral fellow ) at Clemens CJ Roothaan (1918-2019) Ahlrichs worked from 1969 to 1970 at the University of Chicago .
After a time as a research assistant in Karlsruhe from 1970 to 1975 , Ahlrichs was Professor of Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Karlsruhe from 1975 and headed a research group at the Institute for Nanotechnology after 1998. His research areas were the development and application of quantum chemistry methods . Among other things, his working group developed the TURBOMOLE program. In 2008 he retired.
Awards
- Liebig memorial coin (2000) from the Society of German Chemists
- Bunsen commemorative coin (2000) from the German Bunsen Society
- State Research Award (2000) from the State of Baden-Württemberg
- Honorary doctorate from the Humboldt University of Berlin (2015)
Memberships
- International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science (since 1992)
- Heidelberg Academy of Sciences (full member since 1991)
- Academy of Sciences in Göttingen (since 2008)
Web links
- Homepage
- Reinhart Ahlrichs at Theoretical Chemistry Genealogy Project
- Research profile (PDF file; 43 kB)
- ISI Highly Cited Researcher ( Memento from March 12, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- TURBOMOLE
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAQMS obituary. Retrieved October 17, 2016.
- ↑ Biographical data of Reinhart Ahlrichs in: Wer ist Wer - Das deutsche Who's Who 2000/2001 . 39th edition, Schmidt-Römhild, Verlagsgruppe Beleke, Lübeck 2000, p. 13, ISBN 978-3-7950-2029-3 .
- ↑ Life data, publications and academic family tree of Reinhart Ahlrichs at academictree.org, accessed on January 1, 2018.
- ↑ Reinhart Ahlrichs: The convergence of the Brillouin-Wigner perturbation calculation , doctoral thesis Göttingen 1968 [1] .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ahlrichs, Reinhart |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German theoretical chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 16, 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Goettingen |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 12, 2016 |
| Place of death | Heidelberg |