Born June 10, 1953 in Esslingen, Germany.
Department of Chemistry, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada.
Email: axel.becke@dal.ca
1991 Medal of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science.
1994 Noranda Lecture Award of the Canadian Society for Chemistry.
1999 Queen's University Prize for Excellence in Research.
2000 Schrödinger Medal of WATOC.
Fellow of the Chemical Institute of Canada.
Fellow of WATOC.
Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
Author of:
50 papers in quantum chemistry.
Important Contributions:
Development of non-LCAO, grid-based numerical methodologies for molecular orbital calculations.
Development and benchmarking of exchange-correlation functionals in Kohn-Sham density-functional theory.
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