 Henry
F. Schaefer III, a chemist whose research has been cited more
than 39,000 times by other scientists, will deliver a lecture
on "The Big Bang, Stephen Hawking and God" at 4:30
p.m. Tuesday, March 25, in the E. J. Ball Courtroom in the Leflar
Law Center at the University of Arkansas. A book signing and
reception will follow in the Six Pioneers Room.
His visit is being sponsored by the Hartman Hotz Lecture Series
in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences and
the School of Law. Schaefer will also give a lecture on "Lesions
in DNA Subunits: Foundational Studies of Molecular Structures
and Energetics" at 3:30 p.m. Monday, March 24, in Room
144 of the chemistry building.
For 18 years, Schaefer served as a professor of chemistry at
the University of California, Berkeley. Since 1987, he has been
the Graham Perdue Professor of Chemistry and director of the
Center for Computational Chemistry at the University of Georgia.
From 1981 to 1997, Schaefer was the sixth most highly cited
chemist in the world. The Science Citation Index reports that
by December 31, 2006, his research had been cited more than 39,000
times.
In his research, he uses state-of-the-art computational hardware
and theoretical methods to solve important problems in molecular
quantum mechanics. He is the author of more than 1,150 scientific
publications, the majority appearing in the Journal of Chemical
Physics and the Journal of the American Chemical Society. The
recipient of 17 honorary degrees, he was the longest serving
editor-in-chief of the London-based journal Molecular Physics.
He was also the longest serving president of the World Association
of Theoretical and Computational Chemists, from 1996 to 2005.
Schaefer's major awards include the American Chemical Society
Award in Pure Chemistry, the American Chemical Society Leo Hendrik
Baekeland Award, the Schrödinger Medal and the Centenary
Medal of the Royal Society of Chemistry. In 2004, an international
conference in Korea celebrated the publication of his 1000th
research paper.
Besides his chemistry research, Schaefer is also well-known
for his lectures on the relation between science and religion.
His book Science and Christianity: Conflict or Coherence has
received excellent reviews.
Contact:
Peter Pulay, the Mildred B. Cooper Chair in Bioinformatics Research,
department of chemistry and biochemistry
J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences
(479) 575-6612, pulay@uark.edu
Lynn Fisher, communications director
Fulbright College
(479) 575-7272, lfisher@uark.edu |
