Reinhart Ahlrichs

Reinhart Ahlrichs (16 January 1940 – 12 October 2016) was a German theoretical chemist.[1]

Biography

Ahlrichs was born on the 16 January 1940 in Göttingen. He studied Physics at the University of Göttingen (Diplom (M.Sc.) in 1965) and received his PhD in 1968 with W. A. Bingel. From 1968-69 he was assistant at Göttingen with Werner Kutzelnigg and from 1969-70 Postdoctoral Fellow with C. C. J. Roothaan at the University of Chicago.

After a period as assistant from 1970-75 in Karlsruhe he had been Professor of Theoretical chemistry at the University of Karlsruhe. He also headed a research group at the INT.[2]

His group developed the program TURBOMOLE.

Awards
  • Liebig-Denkmuenze (2000) from the German Chemical Society (GDCh)
  • Bunsen-Denkmuenze (2000) from Deutsche Bunsengesellschaft

Memberships
gollark: You are GEORGE; in a way, we all are GEORGE.
gollark: GEORGE is currently standing outside the US National Library of Medicine.
gollark: GEORGE is the largest sporadic simple group.
gollark: GEORGE is a good notion of “fibrant-cofibrant functor” between which weak transformations can be replaced by strict ones.
gollark: GEORGE is commutative, associative, alternative, and invariant under tetration.

References
  1. Jahrbuch (PDF), Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2017, p. 20
  2. Institute for Nanotechnology (INT) Archived 2003-04-17 at the Wayback Machine
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