Charlotte Froese Fischer | |
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.jpg) Fischer at EDSAC | |
| Born | Charlotte Froese September 21, 1929 |
| Died | February 8, 2024 (aged 94) Maryland, U.S. |
| Alma mater | University of British Columbia University of Cambridge |
| Spouse | |
| Awards | Sloan Research Fellowship Fellow of the American Physical Society Member, Royal Physiographic Society in Lund Fulbright Senior Research Award Foreign Member, Lithuanian Academy of Sciences Honorary Doctorate, Malmö University Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Honorary Doctorate, Western University |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | University of British Columbia Harvard College Observatory Vanderbilt University National Institute of Standards and Technology |
| Doctoral advisor | Douglas Hartree |
Charlotte Froese Fischer (September 21, 1929 – February 8, 2024) was a Canadian-American applied mathematician, computer scientist and physicist noted for the development and implementation of the Multi-Configurational Hartree–Fock (MCHF) approach to atomic-structure calculations and its application to the description of atomic structure and spectra.[1]
The experimental discovery of the negative ion of calcium[2] was motivated by her theoretical prediction of its existence.[3] This was the first known anion of a Group 2 element.[4][5] Its discovery was cited in Froese Fischer's election to Fellow of the American Physical Society.
- ^ Falk, Dan (March 28, 2024). "Scientist Charlotte Froese Fischer was considered the 'first lady of computational atomic structure theory'". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved April 16, 2024.
- ^ Pegg, D. J.; Thompson, J. S.; Compton, R. N.; Alton, G. D. (1987), "Evidence for a stable negative ion of calcium", Physical Review Letters, 59 (20): 2267–2270, Bibcode:1987PhRvL..59.2267P, doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.59.2267, PMID 10035499
- ^ Froese Fischer, Charlotte; Lagowski, Jolanta B.; Vosko, S.H. (1987), "Ground States of Ca− and Sc− from Two Theoretical Points of View", Physical Review Letters, 59 (20): 2263–2266, Bibcode:1987PhRvL..59.2263F, doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.59.2263, PMID 10035498
- ^ Buckman, Stephen J.; Clark, Charles W. (1994), "Atomic negative-ion resonances", Reviews of Modern Physics, 66 (2): 539–655, Bibcode:1994RvMP...66..539B, doi:10.1103/RevModPhys.66.539
- ^ Andersen, T.; Haugen, H. K.; Hotop, H. (1999), "Binding Energies in Atomic Negative Ions: III", Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data, 28 (6): 1511–1533, Bibcode:1999JPCRD..28.1511A, doi:10.1063/1.556047