Wesley D. Allen
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In 1979 Wesley Allen entered Vanderbilt University with an honors scholarship and receiving numerous additional academic honors during this period. Ab initio quantum chemical studies of the highly strained, "antiaromatic" molecule thiirene and its saturated analogue thiirane, was the topic of his undergraduate thesis. He graduated from Vanderbilt University in 1983 with a Bachelor of Arts degree, summa cum laude with high honors in chemistry, and a double major in chemistry and physics.
Dr. Allen enrolled in graduate school in the Department of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley in 1983. At Berkeley he held an NSF Graduate Fellowship in Chemistry from 1983-1986 and continued work with ab initio quantum chemistry under the guidance of Professor Henry F. Schaefer III. He received his Ph.D. in Chemistry in 1987.
Dr. Allen is not member of the ID research community.
- 1986-1988: Postdoctoral research associate at Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA, Berkeley-Sandia collaboration
- 1988-1994: Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Stanford University
- 1995-present: Senior Research Scientist at the Center for Computational Chemistry at the University of Georgia
- 2005-present: Adjunct Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Georgia: Computational Quantum Chemistry
- Authored over 80 publications in the scientific literature.
- Signer of A Scientific Dissent on Darwinism.
- Templeton grant recipient, Cambridge-Templeton Consortium: The Emergence of Biological Complexity, Biochemistry and Fine-Tuning, Wesley Allen, Henry F. Schaefer, Quantum Chemistry in Counterfactual Universes.
Bibliography
- Wesley D. Allen, contr. "Modern Science: Charting a Course for the Future," (2003) ISBN 193010720X.
- Wesley D. Allen and Henry F. Schaefer III, contr. "Implications of Complexity and Chaos," in Darwin's Nemesis (2006) ISBN 0830828362.
- "On the Accuracy Limits of Orbital Expansion Methods: Explicit Effects of k-functions on Atomic and Molecular Energies," E. F. Valeev, W. D. Allen, R. Hernandez, C. D. Sherrill, and H. F. Schaefer, J. Chem. Phys. 118, 8594-8610 (2003).
- "Complete Basis Set Limit Studies of Conventional and R12 Correlation Methods: The Silicon Dicarbide (SiC2) Barrier to Linearity", J. P. Kenny, W. D. Allen, and H. F. Schaefer, J. Chem. Phys. 118, 7353-7365 (2003).
- "High Level ab Initio Structure and Energetic Studies of SN2 Reactions of the Type CH3X + F- (X = F, Cl, CN, OH, SH, NH2, PH2)," J. M. Gonzales, C. Pak, R. S. Cox, W. D. Allen, G. Tarczay, and A. G. Császár, Chem. Eur. J. 9, 2173-2192 (2003).
- "The C2H5 + O2 Reaction Mechanism: High-Level ab Initio Characterizations," J. C. Rienstra-Kiracofe, W. D. Allen, and H. F. Schaefer, J. Phys. Chem. A 104, 9823 (2000).
- "Is Møller-Plesset Perturbation Theory a Convergent ab Initio Method?" M. L. Leininger, W. D. Allen, H. F. Schaefer, and C. D. Sherrill, J. Chem. Phys. 112, 9222 (2000).
