Roberto Car
Roberto Car (born January 3, 1947 in Trieste ) is an Italian physicist who deals with the simulation of molecular dynamic phenomena.
Car studied physics and received his PhD in nuclear engineering from the Technical University in Milan in 1971 . From 1973/74 he was a postdoc at the University of Milan , 1977 to 1981 assistant at the ETH Lausanne , 1981 to 1983 at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center of IBM , 1984 to 1990 Associate Professor of Physics at the International School of Advanced Studies (SISSA ) in Trieste (1990/91 with full professorship) and from 1991 to 1999 professor of physics at the University of Geneva (and director of the IRRMA of the ETH Lausanne) before he went to Princeton University in 1999 , where he became Ralph W. Dornte professor for Chemistry is at the same time at the Institute for Materials Science at the university.
In 2009 he and Michele Parrinello received the Dirac Medal (ICTP) for their development of an ab initio simulation method that combines the quantum mechanical density functional theory for calculations of the electronic structure with methods of molecular dynamics to simulate the classical ( Newtonian ) atomic movements. They call their process ab initio molecular dynamics , it is also known as the Car-Parrinello method . The method was developed by both of them in 1985 when both were in Trieste, and found diverse applications in solid-state physics , biochemistry , chemical physics, and materials science .
He received the Hewlett-Packard Prize of the European Physical Society in 1990 with Parrinello, the Aneesur Rahman Prize of the American Physical Society in 1995 , of which he is a fellow , and in 2009 the Sidney Fernbach Award of the IEEE with Parrinello . In 2008 he received the Humboldt Research Award . In 2016 Car received the American Chemical Society Award in Theoretical Chemistry and he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences . For 2020 he was awarded the Benjamin Franklin Medal of the Franklin Institute .
Web links
- Roberto Car. Faculty, Department of Chemistry, Princeton University
- Curriculum vitae. (pdf) March 2009, archived from the original on February 25, 2012 (English).
- Models of Behavior. Archived from the original on February 4, 2018 (English, portrait of Car and Parrinello at the ICTP).
- Dirac Medal 2009. ICTP(English).
- Roberto Car & Michele Parrinello: 2009 Sidney Fernbach Award Joint Recipients. IEEE Computer Society(English).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Unified Approach for Molecular Dynamics and Density-Functional Theory , Physical Review Letters , Volume 55, 1985, pp. 2471-2474, abstract
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Car, Roberto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 3, 1947 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Trieste |