Reinhart Ahlrichs (16 January 1940 – 12 October 2016) was a German

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 o ...

Biography

Ahlrichs was born on the 16 January 1940 in

Göttingen Göttingen (, ; ; ) is a college town, university city in Lower Saxony, central Germany, the Capital (political), capital of Göttingen (district), the eponymous district. The River Leine runs through it. According to the 2022 German census, t ...

. He studied Physics at the

University of Göttingen The University of Göttingen, officially the Georg August University of Göttingen (, commonly referred to as Georgia Augusta), is a Public university, public research university in the city of Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany. Founded in 1734 ...

(Diplom (M.Sc.) in 1965) and received his PhD in 1968 with W. A. Bingel. From 1968-69 he was assistant at Göttingen with Werner Kutzelnigg and from 1969-70 Postdoctoral Fellow with C. C. J. Roothaan at the

University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, or UChi) is a Private university, private research university in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Its main campus is in the Hyde Park, Chicago, Hyde Park neighborhood on Chicago's South Side, Chic ...

. After a period as assistant from 1970-75 in Karlsruhe he had been Professor of

Theoretical chemistry 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 ...

at the

University of Karlsruhe The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT; ) is both a German public university, public research university in Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, and a research center of the Helmholtz Association. KIT was created in 2009 when the University of Ka ...

. He also headed a research group at the INT.Institute for Nanotechnology (INT)
His group developed the program

TURBOMOLE TURBOMOLE is an ab initio computational chemistry program that implements various quantum chemistry methods. It was initially developed by the group of Prof. Reinhart Ahlrichs at the University of Karlsruhe. In 2007, TURBOMOLE GmbH, founded by ...

Awards

* '' Liebig-Denkmuenze'' (2000) from the German Chemical Society (GDCh) * ''Bunsen-Denkmuenze'' (2000) from Deutsche Bunsengesellschaft

Memberships

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 ...

(since 1992) * Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften (since 1991)

External links

Homepage

Research summary
(PDF)
TURBOMOLE
program
ISI Highly Cited Researcher

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ahlrichs, Reinhart 1940 births 2016 deaths 20th-century German chemists Members of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science Theoretical chemists German expatriate academics in the United States Members of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities