Rudolph Pariser
Rudolph Pariser (born December 8, 1923 in Harbin , Republic of China ) is an American chemist. He deals with physical chemistry and polymer chemistry .
Pariser was born in Harbin and first attended the Von Hindenburg School in Harbin, then later an American missionary school in Beijing and an American school in Tokyo . Shortly before the start of World War II , Parisians went to the USA and were naturalized there in 1944 .
In the same year, Pariser received a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of California, Berkeley , and in 1950 he received his Ph. D. in physical chemistry from the University of Minnesota .
He served in the United States Army from 1944 to 1946, during and immediately after World War II .
On July 31, 1972, he married Margaret Louise Marsh.
He spent most of his professional life as a polymer chemist at the chemical company DuPont . Today he runs his own company.
Pariser is known for his work with Robert Ghormley Parr on the calculation of approximate molecular orbitals . This method was published in 1953 and is known as the Pariser-Parr-Pople or PPP method , since John Anthony Pople published the same method almost at the same time in the same year.
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| SURNAME | Parisian, Rudolph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 8, 1923 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Harbin , China |