Hackerman, Norman

NORMAN HACKERMAN Chairman), Robert A. Welch Foundation... 

These facts appear to be unknown to most chemists even after thirty years. During this period I have presented freeon dynamics, on separate occasions, to Nobel-Laureate Robert Mulliken and to my research professor, Henry Eyring, after which I was asked by each whether "they had to learn that stuff ". I was able to assure them that their reputations would not suffer through the neglect of freeon dynamics. Even now after thirty years freeon dynamics does not appear in the standard quantum chemistry texts with the noteworthy exception of Roy McWeeny s Methods of Molecular Quantum Mechanics [2] Consequently the title of this article has been taken to be Freeon Dynamics. A Novel Theory of Atoms and Molecules. When, at the onset of my research on freeon dynamics, I told Norman Hackerman, a former office-mate and at that time president of the University of Texas, that I had an idea for a novel way to do quantum mechanics but that I did not know whether I would be able to acquire the necessary... 

Dr. Ksenija Babid-Samard2ija wishes to express her gratitude to the late Distinguished Professor Emeritus Norman Hackerman of Rice University for his assistance and encouragement during the preparation of this work. Dr. Sofija P. Sovilj thanks the Ministry of Science of the Republic of Serbia for its support of this work (FToject 142028). 

A Hen J. Bard is a New Yorker turned Texan by way of Boston. He received his /iB.S. from City College of New York, completed his doctorate at Harvard, and has been on the faculty at the University of Texas, Austin since 1958. At Texas, he holds the Norman Hackerman/Welch Regents Chair and is founder and director of the Laboratory of Electrochemistry. The lab develops electroanalytical methods and instruments and applies them to the study of problems in elec-troorganic chemistry, photoelectrochemistry, and electroanalytical chemistry. Bard and his laboratory hold more than 20 patents. Along with his former graduate student Larry R. Faulkner, he co-authored the important textbook Electrochemical Methods. In 2002, Bard added the Priestly Medal, the top award from the American Chemical Society, to his many other national and international prizes in chemistry. He recently stepped down as editor-in-chief of the Journal of the American Chemical Society, a position he held for 20 years. 

ALLEN J. BARD holds the Norman Hackerman/Welch Chair in Chemistry at the University of Texas at Austin, is editor-in-chief of the Journal of the American Chemical Society, and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He attended the City College of New York (B.S., summa cum laude, 1955) and completed his graduate work (A.M., 1956 Ph.D., 1958) at Harvard University. In 1958 he joined the faculty of the University of Texas at Austin. His research interests have included investigations in electro-organic chemistry, photoelectrochemistry, electrogenerated chemiluminescence, and electroanalytical chemistry, and he has published about 400 papers and several books and holds six patents in these areas. 

Eric V. Anslyn received his B.S. from California State University, Northridge, and his Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology. He is the Norman Hackerman Professor and a University Distingirished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. Eric s research focuses on the physical and bioorganic chemistry of synthetic and... 

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