Robert J. Harrison
Robert J. Harrison (born June 19, 1960 in Birmingham ) is a British theoretical chemist and expert on high performance computing.
Harrison studied at Cambridge University, where he received his PhD in 1984. He was a post-doctoral student at the University of Florida and the Daresbury Laboratory. From 1988 he was at the Argonne National Laboratory and from 1992 at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
Harrison was Professor of Chemistry at the University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory from 2002 and Director of the Joint Institute of Computational Science (JICS) from 2011. He is founding director of the Institute for Advanced Computational Science at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and Brookhaven National Laboratory , where he is director of the Computational Science Center.
He is the developer of NWChem, a software for calculations in quantum chemistry on massively parallel computers, and (with George Fann) of MADNESS (Multiresolution Adaptive Numerical Environment for Scientific Simulation), a programming environment for solving differential and integral equations on massively parallel computers Calculators.
In 2002 he received the Sidney Fernbach Award .
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| SURNAME | Harrison, Robert J. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 19, 1960 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Birmingham |