====== Contributors ======
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Many different people have contributed to the //potfit// code.

This list shows who was responsible for which parts of //potfit//:

^  **Name**  ^  **Contribution**  ^
| Peter Brommer  | Original idea and author of //potfit//\\ Tabulated EAM potentials\\ Simulated annealing and least squares optimization |
| Franz Gähler  | Original idea and author of //potfit//\\ Tabulated pair potentials |
| Daniel Schopf  | Analytic potentials\\ ADP implementation\\ Evolutionary optimization\\ MEAM adaptation\\ Tersoff and Tersoffmod potential (from IMD)\\ Stillinger-Weber potential (from IMD) |
| Philipp Beck  | Coulomb and Dipole interactions |
| Sergey Starikov and Vladimir Stegailov  | Preliminary MEAM implementation |
| Jeremy Nicklas  | MEAM implementation |
| Ben Palmer | TBEAM implementation |
| Mingjian Wen | KIM support |
| Ariel Lozano | angular pair and elstat implementation |

Most of these people can be contacted via the //potfit// [[contact|mailing list]].