Mark S. Gordon is a professor of

chemistry Chemistry is the science, scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter. It is a natural science that covers the Chemical element, elements that make up matter to the chemical compound, compounds made of atoms, molecules and ions ...

at Iowa State University, and Ames Laboratory working in the area of computational

quantum chemistry Quantum chemistry, also called molecular quantum mechanics, is a branch of physical chemistry focused on the application of quantum mechanics to chemical systems, particularly towards the quantum-mechanical calculation of electronic contributions ...

. He is a member of The International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science. Mark Gordon received his B.S. from

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute () (RPI) is a private research university in Troy, New York, with an additional campus in Hartford, Connecticut. A third campus in Groton, Connecticut closed in 2018. RPI was established in 1824 by Stephen Van ...

, followed by a PhD. from Carnegie Mellon working under the supervision of John Pople, followed by a postdoctoral stint with Klaus Ruedenberg at Iowa State University. He was on the faculty at North Dakota State University until 1993 when he moved to Iowa State University. He is well known for his work with the GAMESS (US) quantum chemistry program.

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Living people Members of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science Carnegie Mellon University alumni Iowa State University faculty 1942 births Computational chemists Theoretical chemists Fellows of the American Physical Society {{chemist-stub