Could someone please post Fritz's CV so people can see he's a legit scientist?
RWP, who did you have in mind specifically for the next tier of quantum chemists (given they just included a French theoretician in this year's Chemistry Nobel)?
Full Disclosure: Eyring (transition state theory) was reportedly a devout Mormon, speaking of non-traditional religious beliefs coupled with science...
Cheers!
Henry F. Schaefer III was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1944. He attended public schools in Syracuse (New York), Menlo Park (California), and Grand Rapids (Michigan), graduating from East Grand Rapids High School in 1962. He received his B.S. degree in chemical physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1966) and Ph.D. degree in chemical physics from Stanford University (1969). For 18 years (1969-1987) he served as a professor of chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. During the 1979-1980 academic year he was also Wilfred T. Doherty Professor of Chemistry and inaugural Director of the Institute for Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Texas, Austin. Since 1987 Dr. Schaefer has been Graham Perdue Professor of Chemistry and Director of theCenter for Computational Quantum Chemistry at the University of Georgia. His other academic appointments include Professeur d'Echange at the University of Paris (1977), Gastprofessur at the Eidgenossische Technische Hochshule (ETH), Zurich (1994, 1995, 1997, 2000, 2002), and David P. Cr aig Visiting Professor at the Australian National University (1999). He is the author of more than 975 scientific publications, the majority appearing in the Journal of Chemical Physics or the Journal of the American Chemical Society.
Not the publication list, please. Too much bandwidth:-)
RWP, who did you have in mind specifically for the next tier of quantum chemists (given they just included a French theoretician in this year's Chemistry Nobel)?
I'd put Ahrichs on the list, Michael Dewar, Karl Freed, Parinello...just off the top of my head.
And there are other very active areas of theory too. Martin Karplus has got to be up there for his MD work.