Michelle Francl

Michelle M. Francl is an American chemist. Francl is a professor of chemistry, and has taught physical chemistry, general chemistry and mathematical modeling at Bryn Mawr College since 1986.[1]

Michelle Francl
Known forwork in computational chemistry
AwardsChristian R. and Mary F. Lindback Award
Scientific career
InstitutionsBryn Mawr College

Francl is noted for developing new methodology in computational chemistry, including the 6-31G* basis set for Na to Ar and electrostatic potential charges. She received a Ph.D. from the University of California, Irvine in 1983

On a list of the 1000 most cited chemists,[2] Francl is a member of the editorial board for the Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modelling, active in the American Chemical Society and the author of The Survival Guide for Physical Chemistry. In 1994, she was awarded the Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Award by Bryn Mawr College for excellence in teaching.[3]

Francl's podcast, "Introduction to Quantum Mechanics," broke into the iTunes Top 100 in October 2005,[4] and currently writes for Nature Chemistry.[5][6]

In April 2016, Francl was named one of nine adjunct scholars of the Vatican Observatory also known as (Italian: Specola Vaticana).

Francl was awarded the 2019 American Chemical Society's Philadelphia Section Award which recognizes an individual, "who, by conspicuous scientific achievement through research, has made important contributions to man's knowledge and thereby aided the public appreciation of the profession."[7]

Bibliography

Books
  • Francl, Michelle (January 2002). Survival Guide for Physical Chemistry. Lakeville, MN: Physics Curriculum & Instruction, Inc. ISBN 0-9713134-0-7.

Articles
  • CF3 Rotation in 3-trimethylfluorophenanthrene: X-ray Diffraction and ab initio Electronic Structure Calculations, X. Wang, F.B. Mallory, C.W. Mallory, A.J. Rheingold, P.A. Beckmann, M.M. Francl, J. Phys. Chem. A, 110, 3954-3960 (2006).
  • A Theoretical Study of the Reduction Of Carbonyls By Alkylaluminum Complexes, J.W. Bundens, P.R. Seida, D. Jeyakumar and M.M. Francl, Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modeling, 24, 195-202 (2005).
  • Exploring Exotic Kinetics: An Introduction to the Use of Numerical Methods in Chemical Kinetics, M. M. Francl J. Chem. Educ., 81, 1535 (2004).
  • An Ab Initio MO Study of the Symmetric And Asymmetric Isomers of Bridging Alkynylaluminum and Alkynylberyllium Dimers, P. R. Seida, J.W. Bundens, M.M. Francl, Int. J. Quantum Chem., 95, 806-809 (2003).

References
  1. Guarino, Ben; Rosenberg, Eli (30 March 2018). "California ordered to add cancer warning to coffee, but the science doesn't hold up". Washington Post.
  2. "1000 Most Cited Chemists 1981-1997". univ-lemans.fr. 14 February 1998. Archived from the original on 14 February 1998.
  3. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-14. Retrieved 2009-07-11.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. "Bryn Mawr Now: Bryn Mawr Chemistry Podcast Cracks iTunes Top 100". 6 November 2007. Archived from the original on 6 November 2007.
  5. Francl, Michelle (1 May 2009). "Table manners". Nature Chemistry. 1 (2): 97–98. Bibcode:2009NatCh...1...97F. doi:10.1038/NCHEM.183. PMID 21378810.
  6. Francl, Michelle (22 March 2018). "Atomic women". Nature Chemistry. 10 (4): 373–375. Bibcode:2018NatCh..10..373F. doi:10.1038/S41557-018-0038-3. PMID 29568054.
  7. "Philadelphia Section Award". American Chemical Society. Retrieved 2019-07-11.


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