Henry F. Schaefer III
American theoretical chemist
Biography
Henry Frederick "Fritz" Schaefer III (born June 8, 1944) is an American computational, physical, and theoretical chemist.
Schaefer is the Graham Perdue Professor of Chemistry at the University of Georgia, where he is also the director of its Center for Computational Chemistry. He was previously a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Wilfred T. Doherty Professor of Chemistry at the University of Texas at Austin, where he had been the inaugural director of the Institute for Theoretical Chemistry. He is one of the most highly cited chemists in the world, with a Thomson Reuters h-index of 121 as of 2020.
Schaefer is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Physical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Royal Society of Chemistry, the American Chemical Society, and an honorary fellow of the Chemical Research Society of India. He is the author of more than 1,600 scientific papers and was nominated for the Nobel Prize on five occasions.
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Career highlights
Employers / organisations
- University of Georgia
- University of California, Berkeley
- ETH Zurich
Awards & honours (12)
- Guggenheim Fellowship
- ACS Award in Theoretical Chemistry
- ACS Award in Pure Chemistry
- Centenary Prize
- Fellow of the American Physical Society
- Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- honorary doctor of the Beijing Institute of Technology
- Peter Debye Award in Physical Chemistry
- American Institute of Chemists Gold Medal
- Remsen Award
- Schrödinger Medal
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