Nicholas C. Handy
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Nicholas Charles Handy (Born June 17, 1941 in Wiltshire, England) is a Professor of quantum chemistry, University of Cambridge, UK. He has written 320 scientific papers published in physical and theoretical chemistry journals. He retired from his Cambridge Professorship in September 2004.[1]
[edit] Contributions
He has developed several methods in quantum chemistry and theoretical spectroscopy. His contributions have helped greatly to the understanding of:
- the transcorrelated method
- the long range behaviour of Hartree-Fock orbitals
- semiclassical methods for vibrational energies
- the variational method for rovibrational wave-functions (in normal and internal coordinates)
- Full configuration interaction with Slater determinants (benchmark studies)
- convergence of the Møller-Plesset series
- the reaction path Hamiltonian
- Anharmonic spectroscopic and thermodynamic properties using higher derivative methods
- Brueckner-doubles theory
- Open shell Møller-Plesset theory
- frequency-dependent properties
- Density functional theory : quadrature, new functionals and molecular properties.
[edit] Other Merits
- Fellow of the Royal Society, London (1990).
- Member of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science.
