Martin Schütz

Martin Schütz (14 November 1963 – 25 February 2018) was a Swiss theoretical chemist and quantum chemist.

Life Martin Schütz was born at Burgdorf (BE) in Middle Switzerland, the son of Jakob and Sylvia Schütz. In 1994 he accepted an opportunity to move to Sweden where he joined the group working with Björn Roos at Lund University, just outside Malmö in the extreme south of the country. He remained at Lund with a post-doctoral fellowship for three years, working on the development of integral-direct correlation methodologies. In 1996 Schütz and his fellow researcher Roland Lindh received the SUP’Prize at the SUP'EUR 96 "computing in science" event at Kraków in recognition of the work. He moved closer to home in 1997 when he joined the group working with Hans-Joachim Werner at Stuttgart. It was at Stuttgart that on 15 February 2001 Schütz received his habilitation (higher post-graduate degree) for work on "Electron Correlation in Large Molecular Systems: From Integral-Direct to Linear Scaling Local Correlation Methods", following which he accepted a lectureship at the university. During his time at Stuttgart he successfully developed correlation methods scaled in a linear sequence according to molecule size, building on work undertaken by Peter Pulay during the 1980s. The work that Schütz undertook during the first couple of years of the third millennium invokes Post–Hartree–Fock methodologies, applying coupled cluster techniques, and extending to molecules with triple substitutions. Previously they had been limited to small molecules because of the absence of scalability of the methods conditioned by cononinical (and therefore not localised) orthogonal molecular orbital bases.