Professor Henry F. (Fritz) Schaefer is one
of the most distinguished physical scientists in the world. The U.S. News and
World Report cover story of December 23, 1991 speculated that Professor Schaefer
is a “five time nominee for the Nobel Prize.” He has received four
of the most prestigious awards of the American Chemical Society, as well as
the most highly esteemed award (the Centenary Medal) given to a non-British
subject by London’s Royal Society of Chemistry. He is a Fellow of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Moreover, his general interest lectures
on science and religion have riveted large audiences in nearly all the major
universities in the U.S.A. and in Beijing, Berlin, Budapest, Calcutta, Cape
Town, New Delhi, Hong Kong, Istanbul, London, Paris, Prague, Sarajevo, Seoul,
Shanghai, Singapore, Sofia, St. Petersburg, Sydney, Tokyo, Warsaw, Zagreb, and
Zürich.
For 18 years Dr. Schaefer was a faculty member at the University of California at Berkeley, where he remains Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus. Since 1987 Dr. Schaefer has been Graham Perdue Professor of Chemistry and Director of the Center for Computational Chemistry at the University of Georgia.
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