From:
Smith, Diane
Sent: Monday, October 12, 2009 8:23 PM
To: Trinity Emeritus; Trinity Students; Trinity Faculty/Staff
Subject: Distinguished Scientists Lecturer, Dr. Henry Schaefer, Oct. 19,
2009
Dear Members of the Trinity Community,
I would like to invite you and your students, family, and friends to a public lecture, “The Third Age of Quantum Chemistry” by Dr. Henry Schaefer in Laurie Auditorium, 7:30 p.m., this Monday, October 19, as part of the Trinity University Distinguished Scientists Lecture Series. The lecture is free and open to the public (the talk description is given below).
Dr. Schaefer holds bachelor’s and doctorate degrees in chemical physics from MIT and Stanford, respectively. He has also held faculty positions at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Texas. He is the author of more than 1,200 scientific publications, the majority appearing in the Journal of Chemical Physics or the Journal of the American Chemical Society, and was the sixth most highly cited chemist in the world from 1981 to 1997. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Royal Society of Chemistry, London. Dr. Schaefer was awarded the American Chemical Society’s Award in Pure Chemistry, Leo Hendrik Baekeland Award, Award in Theoretical Chemistry, and Ira Remsen Award. The Royal Society of Chemistry awarded him the Centenary Medal in 1992 and he was the 2005-2006 recipient of the Joseph O. Hirschfelder Prize.
Dr. Schaefer will also be giving an afternoon Chemistry Seminar, “From Donor Acceptor Complexes go Gallium Nitride Nanorods,” 4 p.m, Monday, October 19, in Chapman Auditorium.
I hope you are able to attend and welcome Dr. Schaefer to Trinity University!
Sincerely,
Diane Smith
Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs: Budget and Research
Professor of Geosciences
Trinity University
One Trinity Place
San Antonio, TX 78212
(210) 999-7656
“The Third Age of Quantum Chemistry”
In the early 1960s, it was hard to imagine that theoretical chemistry would ever lead to reliable predictions of molecular structures, spectra, or chemical reaction mechanisms. Today, the leading chemical journals often require theoretical predictions to accompany important new experimental discoveries. How did this revolution in chemistry research, which began in 1970, continue against formidable opposition for the next decade?