GAUSSIAN

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Generally, the word gaussian pertains to Carl Friedrich Gauss and his ideas.

GAUSSIAN is a computational chemistry software program, first written by John Pople. ^[1]The name originates from Pople's use of Gaussian orbitals to speed up calculations compared to those using Slater-type orbitals. The practice improved performance on slower computer hardware and facilitated the growth of computational chemistry, particularly ab initio methods such as Hartree-Fock. Gaussian's copyright was originally held by Carnegie Mellon University, and later by Gaussian, Inc.

Gaussian quickly became a popular and widely-used electronic structure program. Prof. Pople and his research group were among those who pushed the development of the package, including cutting-edge research in quantum chemistry and other fields.

[edit] References

1. ^ Computational Chemistry, David Young, Wiley-Interscience, 2001. Appendix A. A.2.4 pg 336, Gaussian

[edit] External links

• Gaussian Homepage
• Gaussian detractors