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Gerald Segal
Emeritus Professor of Chemistry

Contact Information
Office: SGM 418
Phone: (213)740-7036
E-mail: segal@usc.edu

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Education

A.B. , Amherst College, 1/1956
Ph.D. , Carnegie Mellon University, 1/1966
 

Description of Research

Summary Statement of Research Interests

Professor Segal researches the development of new theoretical approaches to the solution of the Schodinger Equation for the electronic and vibrational states of polyatomic molecules, and the application of these methods to problems of current interest. He has developed highly efficient computational methods for calculating fully correlated ab initio wave functions and energies for molecules of some size.
 

Honors and Awards

USC Raubenheimer Outstanding Senior Faculty Award, 1986  
USC Associates Award For Excellence In Teaching, 1983  
 
 
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