CCL: Tom Ziegler

Though I have no direct interaction with prof. Tom Ziegler, I owed to him
 for studying platinum(II) kinetics by DFT.
 It is a loss to our whole DFT cians.
 partha
 On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 8:34 PM, Evert Jan Baerends baerends,+,few.vu.nl <
 owner-chemistry**ccl.net> wrote:
 >
 > Sent to CCL by: "Evert Jan   Baerends" [baerends(_)few.vu.nl]
 > We are dismayed to have to inform you that prof. Tom Ziegler has passed
 > away. He was staying in
 > Bonn as part of his time as Humboldt fellow in prof. Grimme's group. His
 > death is  totally
 > unexpected, he seems to have peacefully fallen asleep but never woke up.
 >
 > It is a great loss to his friends and colleagues, and in particular for
 > the Theoretical Chemistry groups
 > in Amsterdam, and the SCM company, to which he has been closely attached
 > for such a long time.
 > We owe him very much. He was a powerful person in many ways. He brought
 > this power to bear on
 > the scientific problems he dealt with, with tremendous success. He was a
 > passionate scientist.  He
 > also was a powerful supporter of his many friends and colleagues and
 > notably his (former) group
 > members. The Amsterdam group and the SCM company are greatly indebted to
 > him for his
 > unwavering support and contributions.
 >
 > My personal relation with Tom goes back 40 years, almost to the day. He
 > came to Amsterdam for
 > the first time in 1975, when I had just completed my thesis work. Tom was
 > at the time a graduate
 > student in Calgary with Arvi Rauk. He came back yearly, and we
 > collaborated intensely, in particular
 > during the time he was with us as a postdoc for one and a half year in
 > 1979/1980. Tom's many
 > scientific achievements, with the thriving group he built up at Calgary,
 > are highlighted by Arvi Rauk
 > at  http://www.cobalt.chem.ucalgary.ca/group/Copenhagen.Calgary.pdf.
 We
 > have shared a lifelong
 > interest in density functional theory, in the new computational strategies
 > afforded by this (at the
 > time unorthodox) approach to electronic structure, in relativistic effects
 > for heavy element
 > compounds, in spectroscopic properties, and in catalysis. Tom's
 > involvement in the company SCM
 > which expands and improves the ADF code that resulted from all the
 > research in Amsterdam and
 > Calgary has been invaluable.  But thoughts of these scientific endeavours
 > are overshawdowed by the
 > memory of so much personal interaction with such an intense friend.
 >
 > We lose in Tom a great scientist and a great colleague. Most of all we
 > will miss a strong and
 > passionate friend. Our hearts and thoughts are with Liv, Helge and Signe.
 >
 > Evert Jan Baerends,
 > also on behalf of the Theoretical Chemistry group
 > and Stan van Gisbergen and the SCM company members>
 >
 >
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 Dr. Partha Sarathi Sengupta
 Associate Professor
 Vivekananda Mahavidyalaya, Burdwan