Isaiah Shavitt

Isaiah Shavitt

Isaiah Shavitt was born on July 29, 1925 in Kutno, Poland. He was awarded a Ph. D., supervised by S. Francis Boys at Cambridge University, in 1957. He was a professor at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel from 1962 to 1967. In 1967 he moved to a senior research position at Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, Ohio, United States. In 1968 he also became a part-time faculty member at the Department of Chemistry at Ohio State University and moved there full-time in 1981. In 1994 he retired from this position and continued part-time as an Emeritus Professor. He is now an Adjunct Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.

He is one of the authors of the COLUMBUS ab initio computational chemistry programs.

An International Conference, entitled "Molecular Quantum Mechanics: Methods and Applications" was held in memory of S. Francis Boys and in honour of Isaiah Shavitt in September, 1995 at St Catharine's College, Cambridge.

He is a member of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science.

External links

* [http://pubs.acs.org/cgi-bin/abstract.cgi/jpchax/1996/100/i15/abs/jp9634666.html A biography] by Uzi Kaldor and Russell M. Pitzer.
* [http://www.iaqms.org/members/IAQMS.member.Shavitt.html His International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science web page]


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