Shull, Harrison

Uppsala University bestows a Jubilee doctorate on those alumni who have survived fifty years after their commencement. Thus it was that Per-Olov received a new laurel and an additional diploma on May 29, 1998 as well as a two shot salute by the artillery cannon outside the university aula. The president of the student union saluted the five recipients with a speech that was answered by Per-Olov in his characteristically youthful style. Five months later he had a serious heart operation. He never recovered fully. His health deteriorated, and he passed away quietly on October 6, 2000. A memorial symposium was arranged at Uppsala on the day before the funeral, on October 26. Many of Per-Olov s colleagues and friends also gathered on the University of Florida campus to honor his memory with eulogies by Per-Olov s long time collaborator and friend Harrison Shull and by Robert A. Bryan, who held many top administrative positions at UF, including that of President, during most of Per-Olov s tenure at Florida. The 42 nd Sanibel Symposium held in 2002 was dedicated to his memory. 

Following the 1970 conference, F. A. Matsen, Harrison Shull, Peter Lykos, and Frank Harris, a physicist at the University of Utah, were designated to draft the conference report and to take appropriate steps to initiate implementation of the recommendations. Despite the lukewarm response of the Committee on Science and Public Policy, one of the steps they took was to send... 

In summary then, the story of the effort to create the National Resource for Computation in Chemistry was one of determination and persistence, in particular on the part of such individuals as Harrison Shull and Peter Lykos. Like a cat with nine lives, the idea of a national center simply would not die. The center was to represent the coming of age of computational chemistry. Following the examples of the national accelerator laboratories of physics and the national observatories of astronomy, the National Resource for Computation in Chemistry was to be chemistry s bid to enter the realm of big science. As Shull stated in 1974 I really am impressed with the fact that chemistry has a tendency, because it is a little science, to develop chemists who think small. I want to say that it is high time for chemistry to be bold and not timid, to look ahead with visions rather than with minute concern about the little things that seem to bother us and bog us down. °... 

Robert A. Alberty Warren W. Brandt Donald G. Davis William J. Burke James F. Hornig W. Donald Cooke S. E. Wiberley Robert H. Baker Wouter Bosch C. Ernest Birchenall Armin H. Gropp Francis J. Behai Harrison Shull Harold S. Bailey James R. Arnold Martin J. Kamen J. Reid Shelton Wesley J. Dale F. I. Brownley, Jr. William K. Easley Frederick T. Wall Edward L. Alexander Frank H. Hurley R. F. Kruh... 

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