Henry Rzepa
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| Born | Henry Stephen Rzepa June 1950 (age 67) |
| Fields | Chemistry |
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| Alma mater | Imperial College London (PhD) |
| Thesis | Hydrogen Transfer Reactions of Indoles (1974) |
| Doctoral advisor | Brian Challis |
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| Influences | Michael J. S. Dewar |
| Notable awards | Herman Skolnik Award (2012) |
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Henry Stephen Rzepa (born 1950) is a chemist and Emeritus Professor of Computational chemistry at Imperial College London.
Rzepa was born in London in 1950, was educated at Wandsworth Comprehensive School, and then entered the chemistry department at Imperial College London where he graduated in 1971. He stayed to do a Ph.D. on the physical organic chemistry of indoles supervised by Brian Challis.
After spending three years doing postdoctoral research at the University of Texas at Austin, Texas with Michael Dewar in the then emerging field of computational chemistry, he returned to Imperial College after being appointed a lecturer. He was one of the first to be appointed in the UK in the emerging subject of computational organic chemistry. As of 2017[update] he is Emeritus Professor of Computational Chemistry.
His research interests directed towards combining different types of chemical information tools for solving structural, mechanistic and stereochemical problems in organic, bioorganic, organometallic chemistry and catalysis, using techniques such as semiempirical molecular orbital methods (the MNDO family), Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, X-ray crystallography and ab initio quantum theories. Aware of the complex semantic issues involved in converging different areas of chemistry to address modern multidisciplinary problems, he started investigating the use of the Internet as an information and integrating medium around 1987, focusing in 1994 on the World Wide Web as having the most potential.Peter Murray-Rust and he first introduced Chemical Markup Language (CML) in 1995 as a rich carrier of semantic chemical information and data; and they coined the term Datument as a portmanteau word to better express the evolution from the documents produced by traditional academic publishing methods to the Semantic Web ideals expressed by Tim Berners-Lee.
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