RODNEY J. BARTLETT
Graduate Research Professor, Quantum Theory Project, Departments of Chemistry and Physics,
University of Florida, PO Box 118435, Gainesville, FL 32611-8435,
bartlett@qtp.ufl.edu
 B.S., Double Major, Chemistry and Mathematics, Millsaps College, 1966
 Ph.D., Quantum Chemistry, University of Florida, 1971
 NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, 1971-1972
 Postdoctoral Research Associate, the Johns Hopkins University, 1972-1974
Rod Bartlett pioneered the development of coupled-cluster theory in quantum chemistry to offer highly
accurate solutions of the Schrödinger equation for molecular structure and spectra. His group is responsible
for the widely used ACES program system. Other research topics include the search for metastable, highenergy density molecules like N5-; non-linear optics; carbon clusters; NMR coupling constants; new
correlated quantum chemical methods for polymers; ab initio density functional theory; and the ‘transfer
Hamiltonian” for large scale quantum mechanical simulations of materials.
Bartlett received the American Chemical Society (ACS) award in Theoretical Chemistry in 2007 and
the Schrödinger Medal of the World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists in 2008. In
2009, he was awarded the Boys-Rahman prize of the Royal Society of Chemistry. He was named the
Southern Chemist of the Year for 2010 by the Memphis section of the ACS. He won the Florida ACS
Award in 2000. Professor Bartlett is a fellow of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Sciences
(1991), the American Physical Society (1986), the Guggenheim Foundation (1986), and the American
Chemical Societry (2010). He was an E.T.S. Walton fellow in Ireland (2003). He served as chairman of the
Subdivision of Theoretical Chemistry of the ACS (1987). He serves on the advisory boards of the New
Zealand Institute of Advanced Study, the Tyndall Research Institute, Cork, Ireland; and Jackson State
University, Jackson, MS.
After postdoctoral work, Dr. Bartlett spent 7 years at Battelle Memorial Institute, first at the DOE’s
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and then at Battelle in Columbus, Ohio. In 1981 he moved to the
University of Florida as Professor of Chemistry and Physics. He was named Graduate Research Professor
in 1987, a rank held by only a handful of faculty. He maintains a group of a dozen people. He has published
over 500 papers and book chapters, presented over 200 invited lectures at major meetings, edited six books,
and co-authored an advanced text on Many-body methods. According to the Institute for Scientific
Information, he is among the most cited chemists in the world, isihighlycited.com. His h-index is 90.
REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS
R. J. Bartlett and M. Musial, “Coupled-cluster theory in quantum chemistry”, Revs. Modern Phys. 79, 291352 (2007).
I. Shavitt and R.J. Bartlett, “Many-Body Methods in Chemistry and Physics: MBPT and Coupled-Cluster
Theory, ”Cambridge University Press, pp. 1-532 ( 2009)
SPECIAL INVITED LECTURESHIPS
Nov 2010 - Russel Pitzer Lecture, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
June 2009 - Löwdin Lecture, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
December - 2007 – Bartlett Lecture, 16th Conference on Current Trends in Computational Chemistry,
Jackson, MS (The honoree gives a lecture named for him/herself.)
April 2007 - Löwdin Lecture, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
Jan 2007 - Coochbehar Professorship Lecture, Indian Assn. for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata, India
Nov 2007 - The Roger E. Miller Lecture, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada
April 2004 - Professeur Invite’ Louis Pasteur University, Strasbourg, France
May 2001 - Edi Kapuy Memorial Lecture, Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary
Feb. 2000 - Bircher Lecture, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
May 1993 - 11th Robert S. Mulliken Lecturer, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
Mar 1987 - Distinguished Lecture, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AK