Peter Schwerdtfeger

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Schwerdtfeger took his first degree in chemical engineering at Aalen University in 1976, after finishing a degree as chemical-technical assistant at the Institute Dr. Flad in Stuttgart in 1973. He studied chemistry, physics and mathematics at Stuttgart University where he received his PhD in theoretical chemistry in 1986. He received a Feodor-Lynen fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation to join the chemistry department and later the School of Engineering at University of Auckland in 1987. After a two years research fellowship at the Research School of Chemistry (Australian National University), he returned to Auckland University in 1991 for a lectureship in chemistry.{{citation needed|date=December 2021}} He received his habilitation and venia legendi (Privatdozent) in 1995 from the Philipps University of Marburg. He held a personal chair in physical chemistry for five years until moving to Massey University Albany in 2004, where he established the Centre for Theoretical Chemistry and Physics.{{citation needed|date=December 2021}} He became a founding member of the New Zealand Institute for Advanced Study in 2007.{{citation needed|date=December 2021}} In 2007 he received the Royal Society Australasian Chemistry Lectureship, and was the Källen Lecturer in Physics at Lund University (Sweden) in 2015.{{citation needed|date=December 2021}} From 2017-2018 he was member of the Centre for Advanced Study at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.{{citation needed|date=December 2021}} He has published 350 papers in international journals. He was awarded eight consecutive Marsden awards by the Royal Society of New Zealand.{{citation needed|date=December 2021}}

One of Schwedtfeger's notable doctoral students is Patricia Hunt, professor at Victoria University of Wellington.{{Cite thesis |last=Hunt |first=Patricia Anne |title=Jahn-Teller Distortions in Molecules Containing Group 15 Elements |date=1998 |type=PhD thesis |publisher=ResearchSpace@Auckland, University of Auckland |url=https://hdl.handle.net/2292/527}}

• 2001 James Cook Fellowship [https://royalsociety.org.nz/what-we-do/funds-and-opportunities/james-cook-research-fellowship/james-cook-research-fellowships-recipients/list-of-recipients/ Royal Society of New Zealand James Cook Fellowship: List of Recipients]
• 2011 Fukui Medal [http://www.iaqms.org/members/schwerdtfeger.php International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science]
• 2012 Fellow of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science.
• 2014 Royal Society of New Zealand's Rutherford Medal.{{cite web |url=http://www.royalsociety.org.nz/2014/11/26/royal-society-of-new-zealand-recognises-achievements-of-researchers/ |title=Royal Society of New Zealand recognises achievements of researchers |date=26 November 2014 |publisher=Royal Society of New Zealand |access-date=27 November 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141220080825/http://www.royalsociety.org.nz/2014/11/26/royal-society-of-new-zealand-recognises-achievements-of-researchers/ |archive-date=20 December 2014 |url-status=dead }}"[http://www.nzherald.co.nz//nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11365088 Explosive start for NZ's highest science honour recipient]". The New Zealand Herald. 28 November 2014.
• 2019 Dan Walls Medal{{Cite web |title=NZIP Award Recipients – New Zealand Institute of Physics |url=https://nzip.org.nz/about-nzip/nzip-award-recipients/ |access-date=2023-03-16 |language=en-US}}

• {{Cite journal | title = Low Valencies and Periodic Trends in Heavy Element Chemistry. A Theoretical Study of Relativistic and Correlation Effects in Group 13 and Period 6 Hydrides and Fluorides | last1 = Schwerdtfeger | first1 = P. | last2 = Heath | first2 = G.A. | last3 = Dolg | first3 = M. | last4 = Bennett | first4 = M.A. | journal = Journal of the American Chemical Society | volume= 114 | page = 7518 |date= 1992 | doi = 10.1021/ja00045a027 }}
• {{Cite journal | title = Gold Goes Nano – From Small Clusters to Low-Dimensional Assemblies | last = Schwerdtfeger | first = P. | journal = Angewandte Chemie International Edition | volume= 42 |date= 2003 | issue = 17 | pages = 1892–5 | doi = 10.1002/anie.200201610 | pmid = 12730967 }}
• {{Cite journal | title = Resolving the optical spectrum of water: Coordination and electrostatic effects | last1 = Hermann | first1 = A. | last2 = Schmidt | first2 = W.G. | last3 = Schwerdtfeger | first3 = P. | journal = Physical Review Letters | volume= 100 | page = 207403 |date= 2008 | issue = 20 | doi = 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.207403 | pmid = 18518578 | bibcode = 2008PhRvL.100t7403H }}
• {{Cite journal | title = The Pseudopotential Approximation in Electronic Structure Theory | last = Schwerdtfeger | first = P. | journal = ChemPhysChem | volume = 2 |date= 2011 | issue = 17 | pages = 3143–55 | doi = 10.1002/cphc.201100387 | pmid = 21809427 }}
• {{Cite journal | title = Nanoporous graphene membranes for efficient 3He/4He separation | last1 = Hauser | first1 = A. | last2 = Schwerdtfeger | first2 = P. | journal = Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters | volume= 3 | page = 209 |date= 2012 | issue = 2 | doi = 10.1021/jz201504k }}
• {{Cite journal | title = Evidence for low temperature melting of mercury owing to relativity | last1 = Calvo | first1 = F. | last2 = Pahl | first2 = E. | last3 =Wormit | first3 = M. | last4 = Schwerdtfeger | first4 = P. | journal = Angewandte Chemie International Edition | volume= 52 |date= 2013 | issue = 29 | pages = 7583–5 | doi = 10.1002/anie.201302742 | pmid = 23780699 }}
• {{Cite journal | title = The Topology of Fullerenes | last1 = Schwerdtfeger | first1 = P. | last2 = Wirz | first2 = L. | last3 = Avery | first3 = J. | journal = Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Computational Molecular Science | volume = 5 |date= 2015 | issue = 1 | pages = 96–145 | doi = 10.1002/wcms.1207

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• {{Cite journal | title = Relativistic coupled cluster calculations with variational quantum electrodynamics resolve the discrepancy between experiment and theory concerning the electron affinity and ionization potential of gold | last1 = Pašteka | first1 = L.F. | last2 = Eliav | first2 = E. | last3 = Borschevsky | first3 = A. | last4 = Kaldor | first4 = U. | last5 = Schwerdtfeger | first5 = P. | journal = Physical Review Letters | volume= 118 | page = 023002 |date= 2017 | issue = 2 | doi = 10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.023002 | pmid = 28128629 | bibcode = 2017PhRvL.118b3002P | url = https://research.rug.nl/en/publications/relativistic-coupled-cluster-calculations-with-variational-quantum-electrodynamics-resolve-the-discrepancy-between-experiment-and-theory-concerning-the-electron-affinity-and-ionization-potential-of-gold(cf4c829b-af25-49f8-b153-f6bc853893b3).html }}
• {{Cite journal | title = Electron and Nucleon Localization Functions in Superheavy Elements | last1 = Jerabek | first1 = P. | last2 = Schuetrumpf | first2 = B. | last3 = Schwerdtfeger | first3 = P. | last4 = Nazarewicz | first4 = W. | journal = Physical Review Letters | volume= 120 | page = 053001 |date= 2018 | issue = 5 | doi = 10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.053001 | pmid = 29481184 | doi-access = free | arxiv = 1707.08710 }}
• {{Cite journal | title = Oganesson and beyond | last1 = Giuliani | first1 = S. A. | last2 = Matheson | first2 = Z. | last3 = Nazarewicz | first3 = W. | last4 = Olsen | first4 = E. | last5 = Reinhard | first5 = P.-G. | last6 = Sadhukhan | first6 = J. | last7 = Schuetrumpf | first7 = B. | last8 = Schunck | first8 = N. | last9 = Schwerdtfeger | first9 = P. | journal = Reviews of Modern Physics | volume= 91 | page = 011001 |date= 2019 | doi = 10.1103/RevModPhys.91.011001 | doi-access = free }}

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