Sigrid D. Peyerimhoff

Sigrid Doris Peyerimhoff ( born January 12, 1937 in Rottweil ) is a German theoretical chemist.

Life and work

Sigrid Peyerimhoff put 1956 her Abitur, then studied physics at the University of Gießen and graduated in 1961 with a dissertation on Wilhelm Hanle from. In 1963 she became the Dr. rer. nat. doctorate. After that, they completed several research trips to the U.S., at the University of Chicago, at the University of Washington and at Princeton University.

After her return to Germany she was habilitated in 1967 at the University of Giessen. From 1970, she was Professor of Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Mainz and from 1972 at the University of Bonn, where she headed the Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry. In 2002, she became Professor Emeritus.

1987 Sigrid Peyerimhoff was a founding member of the Academy of Sciences in Berlin. From 1990 to 1996 she was Vice President of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. In 1992 she became a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a 1998 member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. She is also a member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering ( acatech) and a regular member since 1990 of the North Rhine- Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Since 1986 she is member of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science ( IAQMS ), who presided from 2006 to 2009 as President.

Sigrid Peyerimhoff lives in Bonn district Ippendorf.

Scientific Work

Sigrid Peyerimhoff made ​​important contributions to ab initio methods in quantum chemistry, in particular the ab initio calculation of the electron correlation and the evolution of the Hartree- Fock method for excited states. Through their work and opportunities were created, environmentally relevant processes in the Earth's atmosphere - to describe - especially in connection with the ozone molecule.

Awards

Writings

Sigrid Peyerimhoff has published about 500 papers in scientific journals and anthologies.

• Calculations at the HF molecule. Dissertation. Faculty of Natural Sciences and philosophical the University of Giessen, 1963.
• Geometry relations between AB_1tn2 and H_1tnn AB_1tn2 molecules. Accurate SCF MO and CI calculations for different states of HCOO -. Habilitation thesis. Faculty of Natural Sciences of the University of Giessen, 1967.
• Theoretical study of small molecules in excited electronic states. West German publisher, Opladen 1990, ISBN 3-531-08384-8.
• (Ed.): Interactions in molecules. Research Reports of the Research Center " interaction in molecules: Synthesis, Spectroscopic Analysis and Quantum theoretical treatment Characteristic structures, 1989-2000 " of the German Research Foundation. Wiley -VCH, Weinheim 2003, ISBN 3-527-27732-3.