Peter Pulay
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Peter Pulay (Born September 20, 1941 in Veszprém, Hungary) is a theoretical chemist. He is the Roger B. Bost Professor of Chemistry, in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Arkansas, U.S.
His most important contribution is the introduction of the gradient method in quantum chemistry. This allows the prediction of the geometric structure of a molecule using computational chemical programs to be almost routine. He is the main author of the PQS computational chemistry program.
His Ab Initio work was cited in the official background material for the 1998 Nobel Prize in chemistry.
Among many honours he was made a Foreign Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1993. He is a member of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science.
[edit] See also
Direct Inversion of Iterative Subspace
[edit] References
- University of Arkansas Faculty Page for Peter Pulay
- Peter Pulay's International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science page
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