Michael Charles Zerner (January 1, 1940 – February 2, 2000) was an

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theoretical chemist Theoretical chemistry is the branch of chemistry which develops theoretical generalizations that are part of the theoretical arsenal of modern chemistry: for example, the concepts of chemical bonding, chemical reaction, valence, the surface ...

, professor at the

University of Guelph , mottoeng = "to learn the reasons of realities" , established = May 8, 1964 ()As constituents: OAC: (1874) Macdonald Institute: (1903) OVC: (1922) , type = Public university , chancellor ...

from 1970 to 1981 and

University of Florida The University of Florida (Florida or UF) is a public land-grant research university in Gainesville, Florida. It is a senior member of the State University System of Florida, traces its origins to 1853, and has operated continuously on its ...

from 1981 to 2000. Zerner earned his Ph.D. under

Martin Gouterman Martin Paul Gouterman (December 26, 1931 – February 22, 2020) was an American chemist who was a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Washington. He is remembered for his seminal work on the optical spectra porphyrins, for which he develo ...

at Harvard, working with the spectroscopy of porphyrins. He conceived and wrote a quantum chemistry program, known as BIGSPEC or ZINDO, for calculating electronic spectra of big molecules. In 1996 Zerner was diagnosed with liver cancer, and died on February 2, 2000, survived by his wife and two children.

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