Alberte Pullman (née Bucher) (26 August 1920 – 7 January 2011) was a French

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and quantum chemist. She studied at the

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starting in 1938. During her studies she worked on calculations at

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(CNRS). From 1943 she worked with

Raymond Daudel Raymond Daudel (2 February 1920Obituary by Jean Maruani
– 20 June 2006) was a F ...

. She completed her doctorate in 1946. On his return from war service in 1946, she married

Bernard Pullman Bernard Pullman (19 March 1919, Włocławek Poland – 9 June 1996) was a French theoretical quantum chemist and quantum biochemist. Pullman studied at the Sorbonne, then spent the Second World War as a French Army officer in Africa and the Mid ...

. She and her husband worked together until his death in 1996. Together they wrote several books including ''Quantum Biochemistry'', Interscience Publishers, 1963. Their work in the 1950s and 1960s was the beginning of the new field of Quantum Biochemistry. They pioneered the application of quantum chemistry to predicting the

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properties of

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. Pullman was born in

Nantes, France Nantes (, , ; Gallo: or ; ) is a city in Loire-Atlantique on the Loire, from the Atlantic coast. The city is the sixth largest in France, with a population of 314,138 in Nantes proper and a metropolitan area of nearly 1 million inhabitan ...

. She was a member of the

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and a member and former President of

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.Members of IAQMS
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1920 births 20th-century French chemists 2011 deaths University of Paris alumni Members of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science Theoretical chemists Scientists from Nantes {{france-chemist-stub