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Enrico Clementi (November 19, 1931 in
Cembra Cembra was a ''comune'' (municipality) in Trentino in the northern Italian region Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, located about northeast of Trento. On 1 January 2016 it was merged with Lisignago to form a new municipality, Cembra Lisignago Cem ...
,
Italy Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe, Western Europe. It consists of Italian Peninsula, a peninsula that extends into the Mediterranean Sea, with the Alps on its northern land b ...
- March 30, 2021) was an Italian chemist, a pioneer in computational techniques for
quantum chemistry Quantum chemistry, also called molecular quantum mechanics, is a branch of physical chemistry focused on the application of quantum mechanics to chemical systems, particularly towards the quantum-mechanical calculation of electronic contributions ...
and
molecular dynamics Molecular dynamics (MD) is a computer simulation method for analyzing the Motion (physics), physical movements of atoms and molecules. The atoms and molecules are allowed to interact for a fixed period of time, giving a view of the dynamics ( ...
. Dr. Clementi received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from
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, where he was a student in the Collegio Cairoli, in 1954 and joined
IBM Research IBM Research is the research and development division for IBM, an American Multinational corporation, multinational information technology company. IBM Research is headquartered at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York ...
in 1961. At IBM he was first responsible for atomic calculations, then manager of a scientific computation department until 1974. As an
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(elected 1969), he led research and development in parallel computer architecture and fundamental research in
chemistry Chemistry is the scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter. It is a physical science within the natural sciences that studies the chemical elements that make up matter and chemical compound, compounds made of atoms, molecules a ...
,
biophysics Biophysics is an interdisciplinary science that applies approaches and methods traditionally used in physics to study biological phenomena. Biophysics covers all scales of biological organization, from molecular to organismic and populations ...
and
fluid dynamics In physics, physical chemistry and engineering, fluid dynamics is a subdiscipline of fluid mechanics that describes the flow of fluids – liquids and gases. It has several subdisciplines, including (the study of air and other gases in motion ...
. In 1991 he retired from IBM to join Université Louis Pasteur in
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, France as Professor of Chemistry from 1992 until 2000. Dr Clementi's work has been recognized by awards and honours: IBM Fellow (1969), Fellow of the
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(1984), President of the International Society of Quantum Biology, Alexander von Humboldt award (2001), Member of the
International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science The International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science (IAQMS) is an international scientific learned society covering all applications of quantum theory to chemistry and chemical physics. It was created in Menton in 1967. The founding members we ...
.


Selected publications

*E. Clementi, "Tables of Atomic Functions", ''IBM Journal of Research and Development'', Special Supplement, Vol. 9, No. 1, 1965 * *E. Clementi, C. Roetti, of "Tables of Roothaan-Hartree-Fock Wavefunctions", Special Issue in ''Atomic Data and Nuclear Data Table'', Academic Press, New York, 1974 *


Books

* Enrico Clementi: "Tables of atomic functions", International Business Machines Corp (1965). * Enrico Clementi, Carla Roetti:"Atomic Data and Nuclear Data Tables", Academic Press, 1st ed.(1974). * Enrico Clementi: "Roothaan-Hartree-Fock atomic wavefunctions: Basic functions and their coefficients for ground and certain excited states of neutral and ionized atoms, Z<54", Academic Press (1974). * Enrico Clementi:"Determination of Liquid Water Structure: Coordination Numbers for Ions and Solvation for biological Molecules",(Lecture Notes in Chemistry 2), Springer-Verlag, (1976). * Enrico Clementi: "Computational Aspects for Large Chemical Systems", Lecture Notes in Chemistry No.19, Springer-Verlag(1980). * Enrico Clementi (Ed.), Ramaswamy H. Sarma (Ed.):"Structure and Dynamics: Nucleic Acids and Proteins; Lajolla Symposium Proce Edings, 1982", Proceedings of International Symposium on Structure and Dynamics of Nucleic Acids and Protei", Adenine Pr, (1983). * Enrico Clementi: "Biological and Artificial Intelligence Systems", Springer; 1st ed., (Sep. 30th, 1988). * E. Clementi (Ed.): "Modern Techniques in Computational Chemistry: MOTECC-89", Springer, (1989). * E. Clementi (Ed.): "Modern Techniques in Computational Chemistry: MOTECC-90", Springer, (1990). * E. Clementi (Ed.): "Modern Techniques in Computational Chemistry: MOTECC-91", Springer, (1991). * Enrico Clementi (Ed.):"Methods and Techniques in Computational Chemistry: METECC-94, Volume C: Structure and Dynamics", STEF, (1993). * Enrico Clementi (Ed.), Giorgina Corongiu (Ed.):"Methods and Techniques in Computational Chemistry: METECC-95", STEF, Cagliari, (1995). * Jean-Marie Andre, David H. Mosley, Marie-Claude Andre, Benoit Champagne, Enrico Clementi, Joseph G. Fripiat, Laurence Leherte, Lorenzo Pisani, Daniel P. Vercauteren, Marjan Vracko :"Exploring Aspects of Computational Chemistry", (in French), Presses Universitaires De Namur, (1997). * Enrico Clementi (Ed.), Jean-Marie André (Ed.), J. Andrew McCammon (Ed.):"Theory and Applications in Computational Chemistry: The First Decade of the Second Millennium:: International Congress TACC-2012 (AIP Conference Proceedings)", American Institute of Physics, , (Aug. 29th, 2012).


References


External links


Bio at IAQMS

Computer del futuro. Conversazione con Enrico Clementi (Interview Movie. 1987 at IBM Kingston)

Enrico Clementi: Produced by Quantum Theory Project Dept. Chem. and Phys. Univ. Florida
1931 births 2021 deaths People from Trentino IBM Fellows Members of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science Theoretical chemists Italian chemists Computational chemists Fellows of the American Physical Society {{Italy-scientist-stub