Charlotte Froese Fischer was a Canadian-American applied mathematician, computer scientist and physicist noted for developing and implementing the Multi-Configurational Hartree-Fock approach to atomic structure calculations and its application to describing atomic structure and spectra. Her theoretical prediction of the negative ion of calcium, the first known anion of a Group 2 element, was later confirmed experimentally and was cited in her election as a Fellow of the American Physical Society.
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What did Charlotte Froese Fischer's computer programs let physicists predict?
Energy levels and transition probabilities of complex atoms and ions.
Fischer developed state-of-the-art computer programs that solve the multiconfiguration Hartree-Fock and Dirac-Fock equations for complex atoms and ions. She then used the solutions to predict measurable quantities such as energy levels and transition probabilities.
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1. Wikidata: Charlotte Froese Fischer
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2. Wikipedia: Charlotte Froese Fischer
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September 21, 1929
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February 8, 2024
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Charlotte Froese Fischer (September 21, 1929 - February 8, 2024) was a Canadian-American applied mathematician, computer scientist and physicist noted for the development and implementation of the Multi-Configurational Hartree-Fock (MCHF) approach to atomic-structure calculations and its application to the description of atomic structure and spectra.
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