Howard Zimmerman | |
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Born |
New York City, New York |
July 5, 1926
Died | February 12, 2012 Madison, Wisconsin |
(aged 85)
Alma mater | Yale University |
Occupation | Professor of chemistry, University of Wisconsin–Madison |
Website | http://www.chem.wisc.edu/~zimmerman/indx.html |
Howard E. Zimmerman aka Z (July 5, 1926 – February 12, 2012) was a professor of chemistry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1980 and the recipient of the 1986 American Institute of Chemists Chemical Pioneer Award.
Zimmerman gave ACS Short Courses on organic quantum chemistry and molecular orbital theory. He authored a 1975 textbook entitled Quantum Mechanics for Organic Chemists. Zimmerman was the organizer of the 1972 IUPAC Symposium (Baden-Baden) and of five Pacifichem Symposia – the last being Pacifichem 2010.