Douglas Hartree

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Douglas Hartree was a British physicist and mathematician known for pioneering numerical analysis and computational methods in quantum mechanics, particularly in atomic structure calculations.

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instanceOf human
mathematician
physicist
areaOfInfluence computational methods in quantum chemistry
development of early computers in Britain
awardReceived Fellow of the Royal Society NERFINISHED
countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
dateOfBirth 1897-03-27
dateOfDeath 1958-02-12
educatedAt St John’s College, Cambridge NERFINISHED
Cambridge University
surface form: University of Cambridge
employer Cambridge University
surface form: University of Cambridge

University of Manchester NERFINISHED
familyName Hartree NERFINISHED
fieldOfWork atomic physics
computational physics
mathematics
numerical analysis
physics
quantum mechanics
givenName Douglas NERFINISHED
influenced Alan Turing NERFINISHED
John Lennard-Jones NERFINISHED
Maurice Wilkes NERFINISHED
influencedBy Erwin Schrödinger NERFINISHED
Niels Bohr NERFINISHED
Ralph Fowler NERFINISHED
knownFor Hartree method NERFINISHED
early work in automatic computing
numerical solutions of the Schrödinger equation
self-consistent field method in atomic structure
memberOf Royal Society
notableStudent Leslie Fox NERFINISHED
notableWork papers on self-consistent field theory
“The Calculation of Atomic Structures” NERFINISHED
placeOfBirth Cambridge NERFINISHED
Cambridgeshire NERFINISHED
England
placeOfDeath Cambridge NERFINISHED
Cambridgeshire NERFINISHED
England
positionHeld lecturer in mathematical physics
professor of applied mathematics
sexOrGender male
workLocation Cambridge NERFINISHED
Manchester NERFINISHED

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