Frank A. Weinhold
Frank A. Weinhold is an American chemist, academic and author. He is an Emeritus Professor of Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Frank A. Weinhold | |
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| Born | May 18, 1941 Scottsbluff, Nebraska |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation(s) | Chemist, academic and author |
| Academic background | |
| Education | BA., Chemistry AM., Physical Chemistry PhD., Physical Chemistry |
| Alma mater | University of Colorado-Boulder University of Freiburg Harvard University |
| Thesis | Reduced Density Matrices of Atoms and Molecules (1967) |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Stanford University University of Wisconsin–Madison |
Weinhold is best known for the development of natural bond orbital methods and associated applications in physical and computational quantum chemistry. He has authored and co-authored over 200 software packages and technical publications along with several books including Valency and Bonding: A Natural Bond Orbital Donor-Acceptor Perspective, Classical and Geometrical Theory of Chemical and Phase Thermodynamics and Discovering Chemistry with Natural Bond Orbitals. His accolades include Alfred P. Sloan Award (1970), Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award (1972), Lise Meitner-Minerva Lectureship Award for Computational Quantum Chemistry from Technion and Hebrew University (2007), and an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Rostock (2011).
Weinhold is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He served on the Honorary Editorial Advisory Boards of the International Journal of Quantum Chemistry and the Russian Journal of Physical Chemistry.