Hans Bernhard "Berny" Schlegel (born September 24, 1951) is a German-born computational and theoretical chemist, and distinguished professor at Wayne State University. He is a highly cited chemist, with a Thomson Reuters H-Index of 116 and citations of over 218,000 as of 2020. He is a professor of chemistry at the

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and co-author of the

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software,

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. The "Berny optimization" as implemented in Gaussian is named after him. His group also created the Electronic Structure Perl Toolkit (ESPT). Schlegel was born in

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, and immigrated to Canada with his family at the age of four. He was raised in

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, and graduated from the

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in 1972. Schlegel earned a doctorate three years later, from

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, advised by Saul Wolfe, then pursued postdoctoral research with

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and at

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before moving to

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to work with

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. Between 1978 and 1980, Schlegel was employed at Merck, Sharp, and Dohme Research Laboratories. Subsequently, Schlegel began his academic career at Wayne State as an assistant professor. He became a full professor in 1986, and a distinguished professor in 2011. Schlegel has won the ACS Award for Computers in Chemical and Pharmaceutical Research and he is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Fellow of the American Chemical Society and Academy of Scholars of Wayne State University, among others. He has co-authored more than 400 peer-reviewed publications. His most cited papers are: * Gonzalez, H Bernhard Schlegel (1989) "An improved algorithm for reaction path following" ''

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, it has been cited 5382 times. *C Gonzalez, HB Schlegel (1990) "Reaction path following in mass-weighted internal coordinates (1990)," ''Journal of Physical Chemistry'' 94 (14), 5523-5527 According to Google Scholar, this article has been cited 5327 times. *HB Schlegel "Optimization of equilibrium geometries and transition structures" Journal of Computational Chemistry 3 (2), 214-218

Awards and fellowships

1. Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship (1981–83) 2.Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher Scholar (1984–89) 3.Academy of Scholars of Wayne State University (2001) 4.

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(2009) 5.

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(2009) 6.Fellow of the

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(2011) 7.ACS Award for Computers in Chemical and Pharmaceutical Research(2013)

References

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