Josef Paldus, FRSC (November 25, 1935 – January 15, 2023) was a Czech-born Canadian theoretical chemist who was a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Applied Mathematics at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
Paldus became associate professor at the University of Waterloo after emigration to Canada from (former) Czechoslovakia in 1968.
[2] This approach regards the computation of Hamiltonian matrix elements over N-electron spin eigenstates that appear in electronic correlation problems.
Paldus possessed several doctoral degrees: In 1961 he received a PhD in Physical Chemistry at the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences.
at the Comenius University in Bratislava and in June 2008 he was awarded the honorary degree Docteur Honoris Causa by the Université Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg, France.