Biography:Martin Head-Gordon

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Short description: Australian quantum chemist (born 1962)
Martin Head-Gordon

Born
Martin Philip Head

(1962-03-17) 17 March 1962 (age 62)
NationalityAustralian
Alma materMonash University (BSc, MSc)
Carnegie Mellon University (PhD)
Known forQ-Chem
Spouse(s)Teresa Head-Gordon
AwardsMember of the National Academy of Sciences (2015)[1]
Scientific career
FieldsTheoretical chemistry
Quantum chemistry
Computational chemistry[2]
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Berkeley
Doctoral advisorJohn Pople
Doctoral studentsTroy Van Voorhis
Websitewww.cchem.berkeley.edu/mhggrp

Martin Philip Head-Gordon ( Martin Philip Head) FRS is a professor of chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory working in the area of computational quantum chemistry.[2] He is a member of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science.[3][1][2]

Education

A native of Australia, Head-Gordon received his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees from Monash University,[when?] followed by a PhD from Carnegie Mellon University[3] working under the supervision of John Pople developing a number of useful techniques including the Head-Gordon-Pople scheme for the evaluation of integrals,[4] and the orbital rotation picture of orbital optimization.

Career and research

Awards and honors

In 2015, Head-Gordon was elected a Member of the National Academy of Sciences.[5][6]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Gabrielsen, Paul (2018). "QnAs with Martin Head-Gordon". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115 (8): 1670–1671. doi:10.1073/pnas.1721205115. ISSN 0027-8424. PMID 29432150. Bibcode2018PNAS..115.1670G. 
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  3. 3.0 3.1 "International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science". http://www.iaqms.org/members/headgordon.php. 
  4. Head‐Gordon, Martin; Pople, John A. (1988). "A method for two‐electron Gaussian integral and integral derivative evaluation using recurrence relations". The Journal of Chemical Physics 89 (9): 5777–5786. doi:10.1063/1.455553. ISSN 0021-9606. Bibcode1988JChPh..89.5777H. 
  5. Anon (2013). "Martin Head-Gordon". http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/members/20035973.html. 
  6. "April 28, 2015: NAS Members and Foreign Associates Elected". Archived from the original on 2015-11-20. https://web.archive.org/web/20151120211335/http://www.nasonline.org/news-and-multimedia/news/april-28-2015-NAS-Election.html. Retrieved 2015-11-20.