Charlotte Froese Fischer
Canadian-American applied mathematician and computer scientist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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]
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Born | Charlotte Froese (1929-09-21)September 21, 1929 |
Died | February 8, 2024(2024-02-08) (aged 94) Maryland, U.S. |
Alma mater | University of British Columbia University of Cambridge |
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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 |
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Institutions | University of British Columbia Harvard College Observatory Vanderbilt University National Institute of Standards and Technology |
Doctoral advisor | Douglas Hartree |
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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.