Ernest R. Davidson
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Ernest R. Davidson Born October 12, 1936 in Terre Haute Indiana, is Professor of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
Davidson graduated from Wiley High School, Terre Haute and Rose Polytechnic Institute; he has been awarded many honours, including:-
- Member of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science (1981).
- Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (1985).
- Fellow, National Academy of Science (1987)
Davidson is the author of over 400 publications, including Reduced Density Matrices in Quantum Chemistry, Academic Press, 1976.
His name is associated with both the Davidson correction and the "Davidson diagonalization" method which he applied to configuration interaction methods.
[edit] External links
- His International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science page
- [http://mypage.iu.edu/~davidson His home page containing all his publications.
