Biography:Peter Gill (chemist)
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| Born | Peter Malcolm Wallace Gill 9 November 1962 Auckland, New Zealand |
| Alma mater | Australian National University |
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| Fields | Chemistry |
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| Thesis | A theoretical approach to hemi-bonded systems and their dicationic analogues (1988) |
| Doctoral advisor | Leo Radom |
| Other academic advisors | John Pople |
Peter Malcolm Wallace Gill (born 9 November 1962)[1] is a New Zealand theoretical and computational chemist known for his contribution to density functional theory (DFT). He is an early and main contributor to the computational chemistry software Q-Chem and was the president of the company during 1998-2013. He is especially known for developing the PRISM algorithm for evaluating two-electron integrals and linear-scaling DFT, as well as self-consistent field method for excited state electronic structure.[2][3]
Education and career
Gill was born in Auckland and received his BSc in 1983 and MSc in 1984 from the University of Auckland.[1] He received a PhD in 1988 from the Australian National University under the supervision of Leo Radom. During this time, he investigated hemi-bonding and the convergence of perturbation theory in quantum chemistry.[3][4] After graduation, he conducted postdoctoral work with John Pople at Carnegie Mellon University from 1988 to 1993. Following this stint, Gill accepted a lectureship at Massey University in 1993. He became a lecturer at the University of Cambridge in 1996. In 1999, Gill became the inaugural chair of theoretical chemistry at the University of Nottingham. He moved to Australia and became a professor at the Australian National University in 2004 and later moved to the University of Sydney in 2019 as the Schofield Chair in Theoretical Chemistry.[3]
In 2001, Gill wrote an essay pronouncing the demise of density functional theory thanks to the rise of hybrid functionals for exchange interactions between electrons.[5][6]
Honors and awards
Gill is the president of the World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists (WATOC) and received the Dirac Medal in 1999[7] and the Schrödinger Medal in 2011 from WATOC.[1] In 2013, Gill received the Fukui Medal from APATCC. [1] Gill was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 2014[2] and received the David Craig Medal from the Australian Academy of Science in 2019.[8] In 2015 Gill was inducted to the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science.[9]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Peter Gill, International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science". https://www.iaqms.org/members/gill.php.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Peter Gill" (in en). https://www.science.org.au/profile/peter-gill.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Head-Gordon, Martin; Gilbert, Andrew T. B.; Loos, Pierre-François; Radom, Leo (2023-05-19). "Introduction to the Peter M. W. Gill special issue" (in en). Molecular Physics 121 (9–10). doi:10.1080/00268976.2023.2219934. ISSN 0026-8976. Bibcode: 2023MolPh.12119934H. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00268976.2023.2219934.
- ↑ Radom, Leo (2019-12-05). "Autobiography of Leo Radom" (in en). The Journal of Physical Chemistry A 123 (48): 10348–10358. doi:10.1021/acs.jpca.9b07390. ISSN 1089-5639. PMID 31801352. Bibcode: 2019JPCA..12310348R. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jpca.9b07390.
- ↑ Gill, Peter M. W. (2001). "Essay: Obituary: Density Functional Theory (1927-1993)" (in en). Australian Journal of Chemistry 54 (11): 661–662. doi:10.1071/ch02049. ISSN 1445-0038. https://www.publish.csiro.au/ch/ch02049.
- ↑ Becke, Axel D. (2014-04-01). "Perspective: Fifty years of density-functional theory in chemical physics". The Journal of Chemical Physics 140 (18): 18A301. doi:10.1063/1.4869598. ISSN 0021-9606. PMID 24832308. Bibcode: 2014JChPh.140rA301B. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4869598.
- ↑ "Dirac - medal". http://watoc.net/watoc.dirac.html.
- ↑ "2019 awardees | Australian Academy of Science" (in en). https://www.science.org.au/opportunities-scientists/recognition/honorific-awards/honorific-awardees/2019-awardees.
- ↑ "IAQMS news archive". https://www.iaqms.org/news.php.
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