Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Isaiah Shavitt was a Polish-born Israeli and American theoretical chemist.He was born Isaiah Kruk on July 29, 1925 in Kutno, Poland but his family moved to what would become Israel in 1929 . After undergraduate degrees in chemistry (1950) and chemical engineering (1951) from the Technion in Haifa, he started a Ph.D. in experimental physical chemistry, but shortly after traveled to Cambridge University on a British Council Scholarship and completed his Ph.D. (1957) under the aegis of pioneering computational chemist S. Francis Boys.Following postdoctoral work with Joseph O. Hirschfelder, a stint as a temporary assistant professor at Brandeis University, and further postdoctoral research with Martin Karplus, he became a professor at his alma mater in 1962. In 1967 he moved to a senior research position at Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, Ohio, United States. In 1968 he also became a part-time faculty member at the Department of Chemistry at Ohio State University and moved there full-time in 1981. In 1994 he retired from this position and continued part-time as an Emeritus Professor. Until his death he was also an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.Shavitt's landmark achievements include being responsible for two of the first applications of the then newly available computer to chemistry; developing the Gaussian transform method for calculating multicenter integrals of Slater-type orbitals; coining the concept of contracted Gaussian-type orbitals; the GUGA (Graphical Unitary Group Approach) to fast configuration interaction calculations; and major contributions to coupled cluster theory.He is one of the founding authors of the COLUMBUS suite of ab initio computational chemistry programs.An International Conference, entitled Molecular Quantum Mechanics: Methods and Applications\" was held in memory of S. Francis Boys and in honor of Isaiah Shavitt in September, 1995 at St Catharine's College, Cambridge, and the proceedings published as a special issue of the Journal of Physical Chemistry.He was a member of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science.Shavitt died at the age of 87 on Dec. 8, 2012 at Carle Foundation Hospital, Urbana."@en }
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- Isaiah_Shavitt abstract "Isaiah Shavitt was a Polish-born Israeli and American theoretical chemist.He was born Isaiah Kruk on July 29, 1925 in Kutno, Poland but his family moved to what would become Israel in 1929 . After undergraduate degrees in chemistry (1950) and chemical engineering (1951) from the Technion in Haifa, he started a Ph.D. in experimental physical chemistry, but shortly after traveled to Cambridge University on a British Council Scholarship and completed his Ph.D. (1957) under the aegis of pioneering computational chemist S. Francis Boys.Following postdoctoral work with Joseph O. Hirschfelder, a stint as a temporary assistant professor at Brandeis University, and further postdoctoral research with Martin Karplus, he became a professor at his alma mater in 1962. In 1967 he moved to a senior research position at Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, Ohio, United States. In 1968 he also became a part-time faculty member at the Department of Chemistry at Ohio State University and moved there full-time in 1981. In 1994 he retired from this position and continued part-time as an Emeritus Professor. Until his death he was also an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.Shavitt's landmark achievements include being responsible for two of the first applications of the then newly available computer to chemistry; developing the Gaussian transform method for calculating multicenter integrals of Slater-type orbitals; coining the concept of contracted Gaussian-type orbitals; the GUGA (Graphical Unitary Group Approach) to fast configuration interaction calculations; and major contributions to coupled cluster theory.He is one of the founding authors of the COLUMBUS suite of ab initio computational chemistry programs.An International Conference, entitled Molecular Quantum Mechanics: Methods and Applications\" was held in memory of S. Francis Boys and in honor of Isaiah Shavitt in September, 1995 at St Catharine's College, Cambridge, and the proceedings published as a special issue of the Journal of Physical Chemistry.He was a member of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science.Shavitt died at the age of 87 on Dec. 8, 2012 at Carle Foundation Hospital, Urbana.".