Roberto Car
Roberto Car (born 3 January 1947 in Trieste) is an Italian physicist, who works on simulation of molecular dynamics phenomena.
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Life
Car studied physics and attained a doctorate in 1971 in nuclear technology at the Politecnico di Milano. He was in 1973/74 a postdoc at the University of Milan, from 1977 to 1981 an assistant at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), from 1981 to 1983 at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center of IBM, from 1984 to 1990 associate professor for physics at SISSA in Trieste (in 1990/91 as full professor) and from 1991 to 1999 professor for physics at the University of Geneva (and director of the IRRMA of EPFL).
He went in 1999 to Princeton University, where he became the Ralph W. Dornte professor for chemistry with a simultaneous appointment at the Material Sciences Institute of the university.[1] He is a professor in the Theory Department, of the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society.[2]
He is a member of the Italian Scientists and Scholars in North America Foundation.[3]
Awards
He received in 2009 with Michele Parrinello the Dirac Medal for their development of the ab initio molecular dynamics simulation method. The method combines the quantum mechanical density functional theory for calculation of electronic structure with methods of molecular dynamics for the simulation of classical ("Newtonian") atomic movements.They call their procedure ab initio molecular dynamics ; it is also well known as the Car-Parrinello method. The procedure was jointly developed by both men in 1985,[4] when they were in Trieste. Their procedure has found various applications in solid-state physics, biochemistry, chemical physics, and materials science.
He received in 1990 the Hewlett-Packard prize of the European Physical Society, in 1995 the Rahman Prize of the American Physical Society,[5] where he is a Fellow, and in 2009 with Parinello the Sidney Fernbach Award of the IEEE.[6][7] In 2008, he received the Humboldt Foundation Research Award for senior US scientists. In 2007, a birthday symposium was held at ICTP.[8] He received the Aneesur Rahman prize in computational physics. The Aneesur Rahman Prize is the highest honor given by the American Physical Society for work in computational physics.
In 2016 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.[9]
References
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External links
- "Perspective on: Imagination and optimism in scientific discovery", News at Princeton, Kitta MacPherson, June 28, 2010
- Website of Roberto Car at Princeton University
- Career summary with selected publications, pdf data
- Portrait of him and Parrinello at ICTP
- Dirac Medal
- Portrait on the occasion of the Sidney Fernbach Award
