Prof. Dr. Reinhart Ahlrichs is a German theoretical chemist.

Biography

Ahlrichs was born on the 16 January 1940 in Göttingen

Göttingen

Göttingen is a university town in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is the capital of the district of Göttingen. The Leine river runs through the town. In 2006 the population was 129,686.-General information:...

. He studied Physics at the University of Göttingen (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

Werner Kutzelnigg

Werner Kutzelnigg, born on September 10, 1933 in Vienna, Austria, is a prominent theoretical chemist. He is now emeritus Professor in the Chemistry Faculty, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany....

 and from 1969-70 Postdoctoral Fellow with C. C. J. Roothaan

Clemens C. J. Roothaan

Clemens C.J. Roothaan was born in 1918 in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. He enrolled TU Delft in 1935 to study electrical engineering. During World War II he was first detained as a prisoner of war camp, later he was sent for a year to a concentration camp in Vught...

 at the University of Chicago

University of Chicago

The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...

.

After a period as assistant from 1970-75 in Karlsruhe he has been Professor of Theoretical chemistry

Theoretical chemistry

Theoretical chemistry seeks to provide theories that explain chemical observations. Often, it uses mathematical and computational methods that, at times, require advanced knowledge. Quantum chemistry, the application of quantum mechanics to the understanding of valency, is a major component of...

 at the University of Karlsruhe since 1975. He also heads a research group at the INT.

His group has developed the program TURBOMOLE

TURBOMOLE

TURBOMOLE is an ab initio computational chemistry program that implements various quantum chemistry algorithms. It is developed at the group of Prof. Reinhart Ahlrichs at the University of Karlsruhe....

 among other things.

Awards

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

Memberships

• International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science
  International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science
  The International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science 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 were Raymond Daudel, Per-Olov Löwdin, Robert G. Parr, John...
  
  (since 1992)
• Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften (since 1991)

External links

• Homepage
• Research summary (PDF)
• TURBOMOLE program
• ISI Highly Cited Researcher