Alain Veillard
    
    
    
        Born June 16, 1934 in Saint-Dié, France.
    
    
    
        Retired Directeur de Recherche au Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut Le Bel, Strasbourg, France.
    
    
     
    
    
        Fellow of the Singer-Polignac Foundation (1964–65).
        Recipient of the Lacaze Prize of the French Academy of Sciences.
    
Author of:
    
        132 papers, including 5 review articles.
    
                    
Important Contributions:
    
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            Atomic and molecular codes for SCF and beyond SCF calculation
        
 
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            Theoretical conformational analysis
        
 
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            Theoretical study of chemical reactions
        
 
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            Structure and reactivity (including photochemical reactivity) of organometallics
        
 
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            Electronic structure of large molecules (metalloporphyrins)