Michael B. Hall

{{Short description|American chemist}}

Michael B. Hall is an American inorganic and theoretical chemist. He obtained his B.S. degree in chemistry from Juniata College in 1966, and his Ph.D. with Richard F. Fenske at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1971.{{cite journal | title = Theoretical Studies on Reactions of Transition-Metal Complexes | author1 = Shuqiang Niu | author2 = Michael B. Hall | journal = Chem. Rev. | year = 2000 | volume = 100 | issue = 2 | pages = 353–406 | doi = 10.1021/cr980404y| pmid = 11749240 }} Hall is currently a professor at Texas A&M University.{{cite web | url = http://www.chem.tamu.edu/faculty/faculty_detail.php?ID=58/ | title = Michael B. Hall | publisher = Texas A&M University | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121209183938/http://www.chem.tamu.edu/faculty/faculty_detail.php?ID=58%2F | archive-date = 2012-12-09 }}

Hall was involved in the development of the Fenske-Hall method, an ab initio molecular orbital method,{{cite book | title = Theory and Applications of Computational Chemistry: The First Forty Years | year = 2005 | pages = 1143–1165 | chapter = Chapter 40. Forty years of Fenske-Hall molecular orbital theory | author1 = Charles Edwin Webster | author2 = Michael B. Hall | isbn = 978-0-444-51719-7 | doi = 10.1016/B978-044451719-7/50083-4}}{{cite journal |author1=Hall, M. B. |author2=Fenske, R. F. |name-list-style=amp | journal = Inorg. Chem. | volume = 11 | pages = 768 | year = 1972 | doi = 10.1021/ic50110a022 | title = Electronic structure and bonding in methyl- and perfluoromethyl(pentacarbonyl)manganese | issue = 4}} as well as the Couty-Hall modification to the LANL2DZ basis sets.{{cite journal | journal = J. Comput. Chem. | title = Basis sets for transition metals: Optimized outer p functions | author1 = Marc Couty | author2 = Michael B. Hall | volume = 17 | issue = 11 | pages = 1359–1370 | year = 1996 | doi = 10.1002/(SICI)1096-987X(199608)17:11<1359::AID-JCC9>3.0.CO;2-L | pmid = 25400155 }}