Addenda to the papers of Robert G. Parr

Collection

Identifier: 2005-013-001

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

For a more detailed inventory, please view this record in our library catalog: https://othmerlib.sciencehistory.org/record=b1050281~S6

The collection mainly consists of Parr's working research files. There are also reports, project proposals and correspondence files.

Dates

Creation: 1935-2001
Creation: Majority of material found within ( 1950-1995)

Creator

Language of Materials

Text in English.

Biographical sketch

Robert Parr worked closely with Rudolph Pariser on the formulation of what later became known as the P-P-P (for Pariser-Parr-Pople) Theory. Density Functional Theory (or DFT) became the consuming passion of his later years and when, in 1999, Dr. Walter Kohn, the proponent of DFT, was awarded the Nobel Prize with John Pople, he invited Robert Parr to attend the ceremonies as his guest. Some felt that Parr should have shared in the award. As of 2005, Robert G. Parr is retired and lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.