chemistry

Stefan Grimme

Stefan Grimme is a chemistry topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Stefan Grimme rather than just read about it. In short: Stefan Grimme (born 4 September 1963), is a German physical chemist. He completed a Ph.D. thesis on photochemistry at Technical University of Braunschweig in 1991, and has been a professor at the Universität Bonn since 2011.

Key takeaways

Stefan Grimme belongs to chemistry; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Stefan Grimme to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Stefan Grimme from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Stefan Grimme (born 4 September 1963), is a German physical chemist. He completed a Ph.D. thesis on photochemistry at Technical University of Braunschweig in 1991, and has been a professor at the Universität Bonn since 2011. Grimme is active in the field of computational chemistry and was elected a member of the Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 2018.

Works Grimme, Stefan; Hansen, Andreas; Brandenburg, Jan Gerit; Bannwarth, Christoph (2016). "Dispersion-Corrected Mean-Field Electronic Structure Methods". Chemical Reviews. 116 (9): 5105–5154. doi:10.1021/acs.chemrev.5b00533. ISSN 0009-2665. PMID 27077966. Brandenburg, Jan Gerit; Hochheim, Manuel; Bredow, Thomas; Grimme, Stefan (2014). "Low-Cost Quantum Chemical Methods for Noncovalent Interactions". The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 5 (24): 4275–4284. doi:10.1021/jz5021313. ISSN 1948-7185. PMID 26273974.

Literature Steven M. Bachrach: Stefan Grimme // Computational Organic Chemistry, 2014.

Awards 2025 Chemistry Europe Award 2024 Van-der-Waals-Prize for Senior Scientists for 2025 awarded by the International Advisory Board of the International Conferences on Noncovalent Interactions 2019 Appointed as Max-Planck-Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research, Mülheim 2015 Karl-Ziegler Lectureship Award from Max Planck Institute for Coal Research, Mülheim 2015 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize from Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft 2014 Thomson Reuters listed Prof. Dr. Stefan Grimme as a "highly cited chemist" for 2002–2012 in a list of only 300 chemists worldwide 2013 Schrödinger Medal of the World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists (WATOC)

See also Jörg Behler Martin A. Suhm Frank Neese

References

External links

Official website "Prof. Dr. Stefan Grimme". leopoldina.org (in German). Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. 2018. Retrieved 11 April 2019.

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Stefan Grimme

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Stefan Grimme claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In chemistry, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Stefan Grimme before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Stefan Grimme ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Stefan Grimme

In research: Stefan Grimme appears in chemistry research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Stefan Grimme in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Stefan Grimme is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1963 births, 21st-century German chemists, Academic staff of the University of Bonn, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Stefan Grimme outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Stefan Grimme in 20 minutes

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Frequently asked questions

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Why does Stefan Grimme matter?

Because it connects several chemistry ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

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Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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