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Michael Zerner

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Residence
  
U.S.

Name
  
Michael Zerner

Nationality
  
Alma mater
  

Fields
  
Computational chemistry

Doctoral students
  
Marshall Cory

Michael Zerner Michael Zerner Professional Profile

Born
  
January 31, 1940Hull, Massachusetts (
1940-01-31
)

Known for
  
ZINDOQuantum chemistrysemiempirical theories

Died
  
February 2, 2000, Gainesville, Florida, United States


Doctoral advisor
  
Martin Gouterman

Academic advisor
  
Martin Gouterman

Michael Charles Zerner (January 1, 1940 – February 2, 2000) was an American theoretical chemist, professor at the University of Guelph from 1970 to 1981 and University of Florida from 1981 to 2000. Zerner earned his Ph.D. under Martin Gouterman at Harvard, working with the spectroscopy of porphyrins. He conceived and wrote a quantum chemistry program, known as BIGSPEC or ZINDO, for calculating electronic spectra of big molecules. In 1996 Zerner was diagnosed with liver cancer, and died on February 2, 2000, survived by his wife and two children.

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Michael Zerner Wikipedia


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