Isaiah Shavitt
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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, USA. 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.
[edit] External links
- A biography by Uzi Kaldor and Russell M. Pitzer.
- His International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science web page
