William A. Lester, Jr. (born April 24, 1937) is an American chemist who is a professor of the graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley.

Professor Lester's research efforts are focused on theoretical studies of the electronic structure of molecules. Efforts in the former area are directed to extending the powerful quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) method to the range of chemical problems that form the traditional domain of quantum chemistry, and beyond.

The William A. Lester, Jr. Papers contain the professional and personal papers of African American theoretical chemist and chemistry educator William A. Lester, Jr (1937-). Lester is noted for his theoretical studies of the electronic structure of …

Professor Lester's research efforts are focused on theoretical studies of the electronic structure of molecules.

2004年4月7日 · Distinguished theoretical chemist William Lester, Jr., was born on April 24, 1937, in Chicago, Illinois, where he attended all-black elementary schools due to racial segregation.

Born–Oppenheimer and angular momentum coupling in adiabatic and diabatic representations. LD Thomas, MH Alexander, BR Johnson, WA Lester Jr, JC Light, ... The calculation of excited states with...

Dr. Lester joined the IBM research staff in 1968 and became manager of the company’s molecular interactions group in 1976, departing in 1978 when he was named Director of the National Resource for Computation in Chemistry sited at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

DR. WILLIAM LESTER JR. CHEMIST/EDUCATOR UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD TOP CHEMIST EDUCATOR OF THE YEAR Dr. William Alexander Lester, Jr, is a Chemist & Educator for the University of California, Berkeley. He was just recently selected for the Lifetime Achievement

2020年2月5日 · Dr. William Alexander Lester, Jr, is a Chemist & Educator for the University of California, Berkeley. He was just recently selected for the Lifetime Achievement Award for 2019 and as Top Chemist Educator of the Year for 2018 by the International Association of Top Professionals (IAOTP) for his outstanding leadership and commitment to the field.

William A. Lester. born: 1937. Dr. Lester was one of the first researchers to solve the nuclear Schroedinger equation for cross-sections and rate constants for atom-molecule energy transfer using full quantum treatment. He is a major developer of the quantum Monte Carlo method for the calculation of energies and other properties of molecular ...