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Peter Pulay CHEM 215 |
Degrees:
Eötvös L. University, Budapest, Diploma (M.S.) in Chemistry, 1963
University of Stuttgart, Germany, Ph.D., 1970
Awards
Award of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1979
Medal of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Sciences, 1982
Citation Classic, Current Contents, May 2, 1988
Burlington Northern Research Award, University of Arkansas, 1989
Elected Member, International Academy of Quantum Molecular Sciences, 1990
Haliburton Research Award, University of Arkansas, 1990
Alumni Research Award, University of Arkansas, 1991
Elected Foreign Member, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1993
Scientific Advisory Board, Biosym Industries, 1992-1997
Board of Directors, International Society for Theoretical Chemical Physics, 1994
Alexander Von Humboldt Senior Scientist Award, 1995
Work cited in the official background material released by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in connection with the 1998 Nobel prize in chemistry
Honorary doctorate, Eötvös L. University, Budapest, May 2001
Molecular Physics reprints 1969 paper in the “Landmark Papers in Mo. Phys.” series
The 2003 Schrödinger Medal of WATOC (World Association of Theoretically Oriented Chemists)
The 2003 Southwest American Chemical Society Award
The fall 2004 “Current Trends in Computational Chemistry” symposium was dedicated to my work.
Elected a Fellow of the AAAS (2005)
Research Interests:
ab initio methods
Research:
Molecular electronic structure methods; theory of infrared, raman and NMR spectra, parallet computing of molecular electronic structure