Wilfried Meyer (chemist)

Wilfried Meyer (born December 10, 1938 in Bad Lausick ) is a German chemist ( theoretical chemistry , quantum chemistry ). He was a professor at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and the University of Kaiserslautern .

Meyer studied from 1955 to 1961 Physics at the University of Leipzig (Diploma 1961), 1962-1965 Philosophy at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich , was 1967-68 research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Physics and Astrophysics at Heinz Werner Preuss , in which he received his doctorate in 1968 and followed in 1969 as an assistant at the University of Stuttgart . In 1973 he completed his habilitation in Stuttgart. In 1973 he became professor at the University of Mainz and in 1977 at the University of Kaiserslautern, where he retired in 2007.

In 1988 he was visiting professor at the University of Texas at Austin and in 1991 visiting scientist at the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics in Boulder.

Meyer deals with the development of quantum chemical methods for the treatment of electron correlation, inelastic and reactive interactions in atom-atom and atom-molecule collisions and the calculation of the structure and spectroscopic properties of small molecules and their excited states.

Hans-Joachim Werner is one of his students .

In 1995 he became a member of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science .

Web links

• Website at the University of Kaiserslautern
• Theoretical Chemistry Genealogy Project