Editing Rudolph Pariser (section)

==Biography==
Rudolph Israel Pariser was born in [[Harbin]], China to merchant parents, Ludwig Jacob Pariser and Lia Rubinstein. He attended the Von Hindenburg Schule in Harbin, an American Missionary School in [[Beijing]] and [[American School in Japan]] in [[Tokyo]]. He left for the United States just before World War II broke out.<ref name="Shea">{{cite journal|last1=Shea|first1=Patrick H.|title=Hard Times and Good Fortune|journal=Chemical Heritage Magazine|date=2007|volume=25|issue=3|page=19|url=https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/magazine/hard-times-and-good-fortune|access-date=7 February 2018}}</ref><ref name="Oral History">{{cite web|author=Center for Oral History| title= Rudolph Pariser |url=https://oh.sciencehistory.org/oral-histories/pariser-rudolph|website= [[Science History Institute]] }}</ref>

Pariser received his [[Bachelor of Science]] [[academic degree|degree]] from the [[University of California, Berkeley]] in 1944, and his [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph. D.]] degree from the [[University of Minnesota]] in [[physical chemistry]] in 1950. From 1944 to 1946, during [[World War II]] and shortly afterward, he served in the [[United States Army]]. He became a [[naturalization|naturalized]] [[citizenship|citizen]] of the United States in 1944.<ref name="Oral History"/>

Pariser spent most of his career as a [[polymer]] chemist working for [[DuPont]] in the [[Central Research]] Department at the [[DuPont Experimental Station|Experimental Station]]. He rose to the level of Director of Polymer Sciences, leading it during a time of great innovation. After retiring from DuPont, he formed his own consulting company.<ref name="Oral History"/>

Pariser is best known for his work with [[Robert G. Parr]] on the method of [[molecular orbital]] computation<ref name="Mangravite">{{cite journal|last1=Mangravite|first1=Andrew|title=The Dream in the Machine|journal=Chemical Heritage Magazine|date=2010|volume=28|issue=2|page=17|url=https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/magazine/the-dream-in-the-machine|access-date=7 February 2018}}</ref> now known (because it was independently developed by [[John Pople|John A. Pople]]) as the [[Pariser–Parr–Pople method]] (PPP method), published both by Pariser and Parr and by Pople in almost simultaneous papers in 1953.

On July 31, 1972, Pariser married Margaret Louise Marsh. He died on February 2, 2021, at the age of 97.<ref>{{cite web |title=Oral history interview with Rudolph Pariser |url=https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/u5x1nh4 |website=Science History Institute |access-date=9 December 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=The Pariser-Parr Lectureship |url=https://chem.unc.edu/pariser-parr-lectureship/ |website=UNC |access-date=9 December 2023}}</ref>