John Lennard-Jones
Early 20th-century English mathematician and physicist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Sir John Edward Lennard-Jones KBE, FRS[1] (27 October 1894 – 1 November 1954) was a British mathematician and professor of theoretical physics at the University of Bristol, and then of theoretical science at the University of Cambridge. He was an important pioneer in the development of modern computational chemistry and theoretical chemistry.[3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]
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Born | John Edward Jones (1894-10-27)27 October 1894 Leigh, Lancashire, England |
Died | 1 November 1954(1954-11-01) (aged 60) Stoke-on-Trent, England |
Alma mater | University of Manchester Trinity College, Cambridge |
Known for | Lennard-Jones potential LCAO |
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Kathleen Lennard (m. 1925) |
Children | 2 |
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Fields | Mathematician |
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Doctoral advisor | Ralph Howard Fowler[3] |
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