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The decline of IU Bloomington’s software exchange was foreshadowed by the withdrawal of a program named for this person, whose “82” edition was distributed by Carnegie Mellon. The CNDO/2 method was an early (10[1])application of three-zeta assemblages named for this person because they were developed in the same lab. A software suite named for this person controversially denied a license to its developer John Pople. (10[2]-5[1])Functions named for this (10[1])person (10[1])are stacked to reproduce the pointiness of Slater-type orbitals (10[3])and are the components of the split-valence 6-31G (10[1])basis set. Semi-empirical methods simplify electron correlation to one-center integrals using functions named for this person, (10[1])which contain an “e to the minus-r-squared” term. For 10 points, what person names (10[1])basis functions whose radial component resembles the normal distribution? (10[7])■END■ (10[6])

ANSWER: Karl Friedrich Gauss [accept Gaussian basis sets, Gaussian orbitals, Gaussians, Gaussian Inc., or Gaussian 82]
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Ben WeinerMinnesota ACornell A3210
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Jason HongBrownBerkeley A6910
Connor BlakeChicago BPurdue7810
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Andrew HannaPennVirginia7810
Michal GerasimiukStanfordIndiana8610
Andrew WangIllinoisJohns Hopkins10210
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Kevin ParkClaremont CollegesRutgers12510
Matthew LehmannWUSTL AColumbia A12510
John John GrogerColumbia BOttawa12510
Joy AnHarvardMcGill12510
Nicholas TunksMinnesota BTruman State12510
Matthew SiffYale AIowa State12510
Aditya SharmaDukeYale B12510
Arunn SankarGeorgia TechMichigan12610
Yared TadesseCornell BKentucky12610
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Jack ObermanSouth CarolinaChicago D12610
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