In the Year of Chemistry: From Mendeleev to Albert Einstein -The Periodic Table of the Elements and Beyond

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Peter Schwerdtfeger is the Director of the Centre for Theoretical Chemistry and Physics at the New Zealand Institute for Advanced Study in Massey University's Albany campus. He is a German and New Zealand citizen, having been born in Stuttgart in 1955 and gaining his education in that city with the University of Stuttgart his almer mater. His doctoral advisor was Heinz-Werner Preuss Initially at the University of Auckland in the late 1980s, where he established a formidable reputation in theoretical chemistry and physics, Peter moved to Massey's Albany campus in its early days where he focuses on virtually all areas of electronic structure theory in chemistry and physics. He was awarded the prestigious Humboldt Prize, by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Bonn (Germany) late last year for his fundamental work in the area theoretical chemistry and is a recipient of the RSNZ Hector Medal.