Paul von Ragué Schleyer
Paul von Ragué Schleyer (February 27, 1930 – November 21, 2014) was an American physical
organic chemist whose research is cited with great frequency. A 1997 survey indicated that Dr. Schleyer was, at the time, the world's third most cited chemist, with over 1100 technical papers produced. He was Eugene Higgins Professor of Chemistry at
Princeton University, professor and co-director of the Institute for Organic Chemistry (Institut für organische Chemie) at the
University of Erlangen–Nuremberg in
Germany, and later Graham Perdue Professor of Chemistry at the
University of Georgia in
Athens,
Georgia. He published twelve books in the fields of
lithium chemistry,
ab initio molecular orbital theory and
carbonium ions. He was past president of the
World Association of Theoretically Oriented Chemists, a fellow of the
International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science and
editor-in-chief of the ''Encyclopedia of Computational Chemistry''.
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