Biography:Frank A. Weinhold

Short description: American Professor of Chemistry

Frank A. Weinhold
Born	Frank Albert Weinhold Scottsbluff, Nebraska, USA
Alma mater	University of Colorado Boulder (BA) University of Freiburg Harvard University (PhD)
Known for	Natural resonance theory Natural bond orbital
Scientific career
Institutions	Stanford University University of Wisconsin–Madison
Doctoral advisor	Edgar Bright Wilson
Other academic advisors	Charles Coulson
Website	www2.chem.wisc.edu/users/weinhold

Frank Albert Weinhold (born 1941) is a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He and Eric D. Glendening co-invented the natural resonance theory.

Education and career

Weinhold studied at University of Colorado Boulder and received BA in chemistry in 1962. From 1962 to 1963, he was a Fulbright Scholar at University of Freiburg, Germany. He studied under Edgar Bright Wilson at Harvard University for his graduate studies in physical chemistry and obtained his PhD in 1967. He conducted postdoctoral research first at University of Oxford with Charles Coulson and then at University of California, Berkeley.

Weinhold became an assistant professor in 1969 at Stanford University. He moved to University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1976 and stayed there until now.