Sandorfy, Camille

Following a very successful conference in Edmonton, it was decided that a second theoretical chemistry conference would be organized in 1967 in Montreal by Camille Sandorfy (University of Montreal) and Tony Whitehead (McGill University). Montreal provided the perfect venue. Canada was cele-... 

From 1954, when Camille Sandorfy took up his position at the University of Montreal, to 1960, only 6 theoretical chemists were appointed. During the next five-year interval, 16 appointments were made. In the five-year interval 1966 to 1970, inclusive, a total of 35 theoretical and computational chemists were appointed to Canadian universities, a time of unprecedented opportunities. The growth rate was not sustainable. From personal experience, the author knows that appointments for theoretical and computational chemists were extremely rare in Canada for the decade beginning in 1971. Indeed, for the ten-year interval from 1971 to 1980, only 14 appointments were made 6 in 1971-1975 and 8 in 1976-1980. 

A number of interesting scientific family trees may be deduced from Table 2. For example, Alain St-Amant and Rene Fournier can be traced back to Camille Sandorfy through Dennis Salahub. Mark Thachuk can be traced back to Bob Snider through Fred McCourt, and Peter Kusalik can be traced back to John Valleau through Gren Patey. 

Raymond Daudel and Camille Sandorfy, Semiempirical Wave-Mechanical Calculations on Polyatomic Molecules, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1971. 

This work was supported by the Region Wallonne (RW. 115012). The computational facilities were provided by NIC (University of Liege) and by F.R.F.C. 9.4545.03F (Belgium). E.S.K. thanks F.R.F.C. 2.4562.03F (Belgium) for a fellowship. We gratefully thank Profs. Alfred Karpfen, Pekka Pyykko, and Camille Sandorfy for interesting discussions and Prof. Alejandro Toro-Labbe for his kind invitation to contribute to this book Theoretical Aspects of Chemical Reactivity. ... 

Belgium), Per-Olov Lowdin (Sweden), and Camille Sandorfy (Canada) - now all deceased. Today the European Academy, under the new presidency of Pr de The, from the Pasteur Institute, involves about 300 full members (all academician in their own country), including 70 Nobel Laureates, and 700 corresponding members, from all over the world. It has the status of a non-governmental organization and acts as a consultant for such international bodies as UNESCO and WHO. 

The author gratefully thanks Slawomir Grabowski for his invitation, Francoise Remade for warm hospitality and F.R.F.C. 2.4562.03F (Belgium) for fellowship. I would like also to thank Sonia Melikova, Therese Zeegers-Huyskens, Pavel Hobza, Alfred Karpfen, Camille Sandorfy, and Steve Scheiner for exdt-ing discussions. 

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