Henry F. Schaefer III
Henry F. Schaefer III | |
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Schaefer in 2019 | |
| Born | Henry Frederick Schaefer III June 8, 1944 Grand Rapids, Michigan, U.S. |
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Karen Rasmussen (m. 1966) |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computational chemistry Theoretical chemistry Physical chemistry |
| Institutions | University of California, Berkeley University of Texas at Austin University of Georgia |
| Thesis | Configuration Interaction Wave Functions and the Properties of Atoms and Diatomic Molecules (1969) |
| Doctoral students | Michael Colvin Kwang Soo Kim Charles Blahous |
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.