 Born June 17, 1941 in Wiltshire, UK. Emeritus Professor of Quantum Chemistry, University of Cambridge, UK. Email: nch1@cam.ac.uk
WWW: www.ch.cam.ac.uk/CUCL/staff/nch.html Address: Hall Garth, Thornthwaite, Keswick, Cumbria CA12 5RZ UK
Tel. +44-1768 778 242 Fellow of the Royal Society, London (1990). Schrödinger Medal of WATOC (1997). Doctorate honoris causa, Université Marne-la-Vallée, France (2000), Leverhulme Medal of Royal Society (2002). Author of:
375 scientific papers published in journals of physical and theoretical chemistry.
Important Contributions:
Development of methods in quantum chemistry and theoretical spectroscopy. Specific contributions to the understanding of : the Transcorrelated method, the Long Range behaviour of Hartree-Fock orbitals; Semiclassical methods for vibrational energies; the variational method for rovibrational wavefunctions (in normal and internal coordinates); Full Configuration Interaction with determinants (benchmark studies); convergence of the Møller-Plesset series; the Reaction Path Hamiltonian; Anharmonic spectroscopic and thermodynamic properties using higher derivative methods; Brueckner-doubles theory; Open shell Møller-Plesset theory; frequency-dependent properties. Density Functional Theory : quadrature, new functionals (HCTH, OPTX) and molecular properties.
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