Peter Gill (chemist)
Peter Gill | |
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| Born | Peter Malcolm Wallace Gill 9 November 1962 Auckland, New Zealand |
| Alma mater | Australian National University |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Chemistry |
| Institutions | |
| Thesis | A theoretical approach to hemi-bonded systems and their dicationic analogues (1988) |
| Doctoral advisor | Leo Radom |
| Other academic advisors | John Pople |
Peter Malcolm Wallace Gill (born 9 November 1962) is a New Zealand theoretical and computational chemist known for his contribution to density functional theory (DFT). He is an early and main contributor to the computational chemistry software Q-Chem and was the president of the company during 1998–2013. He is especially known for developing the PRISM algorithm for evaluating two-electron integrals and linear-scaling DFT, as well as self-consistent field method for excited state electronic structure.