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Paul von Ragué Schleyer

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American chemist (1930-2014)

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Paul von Ragué Schleyer 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.

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2002Kołos Medal
1987James Flack Norris Award in Physical Organic Chemistry
1986Adolf-von-Baeyer Gold Medal
1971honorary doctorate of Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Guggenheim Fellowship
Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
honorary doctorate of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
honorary doctor of the University of Marburg

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Paul von Ragué Schleyer 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 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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Lived 1930 to 2014 · aged 84
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