Rudolph Pariser

Rudolph Pariser ( born December 8, 1923 in Harbin, China) is an American chemist. He is engaged in physical chemistry and polymer chemistry.

Paris was born in Harbin and first attended the Von Hindenburg school in Harbin, later an American missionary school in Beijing and an American school in Tokyo. Shortly before the beginning of World War II Paris went to the United States and became naturalized there in 1944.

In the same year in Paris at the University of California, Berkeley Bachelor of Science, 1950, he received his doctorate at the University of Minnesota in the area of ​​physical chemistry to the Ph. D..

From 1944 to 1946, during the Second World War and immediately after, he served in the United States Army.

On 31 July 1972 he married Margaret Louise Marsh.

The longest of his professional life was spent as a polymer chemist at the chemical company DuPont. Today he runs his own company.

Paris is known for his work with Robert Ghormley Parr for calculating approximate molecular orbitals. This method was published in 1953 and is known as the Pariser-Parr - Pople or PPP method, as John Anthony Pople, the same procedure published almost simultaneously in the same year.

• Chemists ( 20th century)
• Americans
• Born in 1923
• Man