Werner A. Bingel

Werner A. Bingel (born October 19, 1922 in Marburg ; † October 28, 2011 in Göttingen ) was a German chemist ( theoretical chemistry , physical chemistry ). He was a professor at the University of Göttingen .

Life

Bingel studied physics at the University of Marburg with a diploma in 1950 and a doctorate with Erich Hückel in 1952 (on the theory of the solutions of alkali metals in liquid ammonia). He then worked at the Research Center for Spectroscopy of the Max Planck Society in Hechingen and in 1957/58 with Hertha Sponer at Duke University and in 1959/60 with Robert G. Parr at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh. From 1960 to 1963 he was with Heinzwerner Preuss at the Max Planck Institute for Physics and Astrophysics in Munich, where he was on leave from 1961/62 as a visiting research associate professor at the University of Florida in Gainesville. In 1964 he became associate professor and full professor for theoretical chemistry in Göttingen in 1968 (a new chair created by Wilhelm Jost and the first chair for theoretical chemistry in Germany). In 1991 he retired.

Among other things, he dealt with the electron correlation problem (approximations for the term of the self-interaction electrons in the Schrödinger equation).

Reinhart Ahlrichs and Volker Staemmler (* 1940; Prof. in Bochum) were among his doctoral students and Werner Kutzelnigg was among his habilitation students .

Fonts

• Theory of Molecular Spectra , Verlag Chemie 1967
  • English edition: Theory of Molecular Spectra , Wiley-VCH 1969

literature

• Obituary in Chemistry Newsletter, University of Göttingen 2012, No. 1

Web links

• Theoretical Chemistry Genealogy Project

Individual evidence

1. ^ Obituary notice Göttinger Tagblatt, November 19, 2011
2. ^ History of physical chemistry in Göttingen