Henry Fritz Schaefer III was born on June 8, 1944 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He attended different schools in Syracuse, New York, Menlo Park, California and East Grand Rapids, Michigan. After high school, he enrolled in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In the 1966 he graduated with a B.S. Degree in chemical physics. He continued his education at the Stanford University and in the 1969 he reached a Ph.D. degree in chemical physics. In the same year he becomes a professor of chemistry.
He joined the University of California, Berkeley and worked there for eighteen years, until he left for another position at the University of Georgia. During 1979-1980 he worked at the University of Texas in Austin, where he was an inaugural Director of the Institute for Theoretical Chemistry. In Georgia he was Graham Perdue Professor of Chemistry as well as a Director of the Center for Computational Chemistry.
Henry has reached numerous awards like ACS Award in Pure Chemistry in the 1979 and ACS Award in Theoretical Chemistry in the 2003. He also was honored with a Centenary Medal of the Royal Society of Chemistry in London in the 1992. Previously, he reached Leo Hendrik Baekeland award in the 1983. In the 2003 he received the Ira Remsen Award from Johns Hopkins University.
The two years later he got the $10,000 Joseph Hirschfelder Prize from the University of Wisconsin and Theoretical Chemistry Institut. With a success like that he also was a member of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science and fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Previously, he also served as a chairman of the World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists, which is mostly known as WATOC.
In addition to his mainly work in Universities he also is a writer, who published his works and lectures. The most recent works are “Scientists and Their Gods”, “Quantum Chemistry: The Development of Ab Initio Methods in Molecular Electronic Structure Theory” and “Science and Christianity: Conflict or Coherence?”.
Being a scientist he also is very religious person and is known to be an active Protestant Christian educator. He made his appearances in university audiences with Christians lectures. He also published a collection of essays and talks on the subject about God and science. According to his biography he also is a member of the Christian Faculty Forum, which is located at the University of Georgia.
Being a religious, he was a part of some controversies, like in case with six atheist students in the form at the lecture, which was titled “The Big Bang, Stephen Hawking and God” and which was at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. Henry though is mentioned to be married, but he has not spelled about his wife or children. He likes to keep his personal life to himself and stays away from the media as far as possible. There is an impressive work history at the google scholar resource. He earns a massive salary, but the exact total net worth of Schefer is unknown.
| Birth Date: | 8 Jun, 1944 |
| Age: | 75 yrs |
| Occupations: | Chemist University teacher |
| Citizenship: | United States of America |
| Birth Place: | Grand Rapids |
| Education: | Stanford University Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Gender: | Male |
| Description: | American chemist |
