Jürgen Gauß

Jürgen Gauß (Juergen Gauss) is a German theoretical chemist.He was born 13 August 1960 in KonstanzHe studied chemistry at the University of Cologne from 1979 till 1984. After finishing his phd thesis on abinitio calculations at the University of Cologne in 1988 he did a postdoctoral studies in the
University of Washington in Seattle and at the University of Florida in Gainesville about quantum theory. He did his habilitation in 1994 at the University of Karlsruhe on abinitio calculations of NMR-shifts. 1995 he became professor at the University of Mainz.

In 2005, he received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, which is the highest honour awarded in German research.

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* [http://www.dfg.de/aktuelles_presse/preise/leibniz_preis/2005/gauss.html Portrait at the Deutschen Forschungsgesellschaft]