The Papers of Robert G. Parr, 1945-2002 (bulk 1950-1990)

Ruedenberg, Klaus, 1920-

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Parr, Robert G., 1921-....

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Robert G. Parr was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1921. He attended Brown University and did his graduate work at the University of Minnesota under Bryce Crawford. He subsequently taught at Carnegie Institute of Technology, Johns Hopkins University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Robert G. Parr was an important theoretical chemist. In concert with his pupil Rudolph Pariser and in conjunction with the researches of Sir John Pople he contributed to the formulation of what came t...

Miller, Foil A.

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Born in Aurora, Illinois on 18 January 1916. Education: B.S., Hamelin University (1937), Ph.D., Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University (1942). Employment: 1942-1944 University of Minnesota; 1944-1945 Univeristy of Illinois; 1948-1974 Mellon Institute; 1952- University of Pittsburgh; 1997- Editor -- Philatelia Chimica et Physica. From the description of Oral history interview with Foil A. Miller 2001 May 23. (Chemical Heritage Foundation). WorldCat record id: 709780202 ...

Pariser, Rudolph, 1923-

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Pariser was born in China on December 8, 1923. He received his Bachelors Degree in Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley in 1944, and his Ph. D. in Physical Chemistry from the University of Minnesota in 1950. He worked as a research chemist for DuPont's Jackson Laboratory. He collaborated with Robert Parr, and helped develop the Pariser-Parr-Pople method. In 1954, he began work in the field of polymer science. He was named Research Supervisor of DuPont's polymer division, and by ...

Mulliken, Robert Sanderson

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Physicist. (1896-1986) From the description of Oral history interview with Robert S. Mulliken, 1964 February 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83555065 Chemical physicist. Born 1896. B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1917. Ph. D., University of Chicago, 1921. Assistant professor of physics, New York University, 1926-1928. Associate professor of physics, University of Chicago, 1928-1931; professor, 1931-1956; Ernest DeWitt Burton Distinguished Service Professor, 19...

Pople, John A., 1925-2004

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Sir John A. Pople was born in Burnham-on-Sea in England on October 31, 1925. He was educated Cambridge University studying under Sir J.E. Lennard-Jones and Charles A..Coulson receiving his doctorate in 1951. At the urging of fellow quantum chemist Robert Parr he emigrated to the U.S. in 1964 taking up a teaching position at Carnegie-Mellon Institute in Pittsburgh, PA. Pople excelled at mathematics and his contributions to what came to be known as the Pariser-Par--Pople (or PPP) Theory made him a...

Crawford, Bryce L.

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Bryce Low Crawford was born on November 27, 1914 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He earned his B.A. in 1934, his M.A. in 1935 and his Ph.D. in 1937, all from Stanford University. After completing his Ph.D., Professor Crawford was a National Research Fellow at Harvard University (1937-1939) and an instructor in chemistry at Yale University (1939-1940). He came to the University of Minnesota in 1940. He was an assistant professor of chemistry from 1940-1943, associate professor from 1943-1946 and appoi...