Barriol, Jean

Karachalios chapter shows the fine structure and the local character of knowledge production as well as its dependence on information exchange, and the same can be said of the contribution from Blondel-Megrelis. The career of Jean Barriol after the war and the establishment of the Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory at Nancy extends the story to the period after World War II and expands it to include France. As with Bonino, Barriol regarded the interplay of theory and experiment as of utmost importance for a fruitful development of theoretical chemistry. Although after 1945 the scientific contacts of France with its allies were quite strong, illustrated by the fact that the first conference on quantum chemistry after the war was held in Paris in 1948, the establishment of Barriol s laboratory was closely connected to French... 

Between Disciplines jean Barriol and the Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory in Nancy... 

Barriol initiated experimental research in 1935 with Donzelot, who created the laboratory of Physics at Nancy Faculte de Phar-macie, and devoted to Raman spectra studies. In 1937, Donzelot became Professor of Physical Chemistry at Nancy Faculte des Sciences. For more details, cf. M. Blondel-Megrelis, "Jean Barriol et l eclosion de la Chimie theorique a Nancy, Philosophia Sci-entae, to be published. 

Jean Barriol, Elements of Quantum Mechanics with Chemical Applications, Barnes and Noble, New York, 1971. 

In Nancy, Jean Barriol retired in 1974. His successor, Jean-Louis Rivail, started the very early quantum chemical studies of solvated species, and when Bernard Maigret joined the group in 1991, the field of investigation was widened to include biomolecular systems. 

Institut Jean Barriol, CRM2, UMR 7036, Universite de Lorraine, 54506 Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, France... 

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