Cambridge theoretical chemistry

J. Simons, An Introduction to Theoretical Chemistry. Cambridge Cambridge University Press, 2003. 

This was the chair of theoretical chemistry at Cambridge University held by John Lennard-Jones, who pursued a research agenda very different from Lespieau. Christopher Longuet-Higgins became professor of theoretical chemistry at Cambridge, succeeding Lennard-Jones, in 1954. 

For accounts of the history of the development of structural formulas see Nye MJ (1993) From chemical philosophy to theoretical chemistry. University of California Press, Berkeley, CA Russell CA (1996) Edward Frankland chemistry, controversy and conspiracy in Victorian England. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge... 

Charles A. Coulson, bom Worcestershire, England, 1910. Ph.D. Cambridge, 1935. Professor of theoretical physics, King s College, London professor of mathematics, Oxford professor of theoretical chemistry, Oxford. Died Oxford, 1974. Best known for his book "Valence" (the 1st Ed., 1952). 

Robert K. Nesbet obtained his BA in physics from Harvard College in 1951 and his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1954. He was then a research associate in MIT for two years, before becoming Assistant Professor of Physics at Boston University. He did research at RIAS, Martin Company, Baltimore, the Institut Pasteur, Paris and Brookhaven National Laboratory, before becoming a Staff Member at IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose in 1962. He acted as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Computational Physics and the Journal of Chemical Physics, between 1969 and 1974, and was a visiting professor at several universities throughout the world. Professor Nesbet officially retired in 1994, but has continued his research and visiting since then. Over the years he has written more than 270 publications in computational physics, atomic and molecular physics, theoretical chemistry, and solid-state physics. 

Stoicheff BP (1959) High Resolution Raman Spectroscopy. In Thompson HW (ed) Advances in Spectroscopy, vol 1. Interscience, New York, p 91 Stokes GG (1880) Mathematical and Physical Papers, Cambridge Stokr J, Jakes J, Schneider B (1977) Coll Czechoslov Chem Commun 42 2287 Stone AJ (1990) Studies in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry. In Rivail JL (ed) vol 71. Elsevier, Amsterdam... 

Theoretical Chemistry Department, University Chemical Laboratory, Cambridge Received Wth September, 1968... 

Department of Theoretical Chemistry, University of Cambridge Received 2nd February, 1953... 

Department of Theoretical Chemistry, Cambridge University, Cambridge, CB2 IEW... 

Stuart Carter received his Ph.D. in theoretical chemistry in 1966, working under the direction of J.N. Murrell at the Universities of Sheffield and Sussex. After leaving academia to work as a computer programmer with International Computers Ltd, he returned to continue his research in 1976, working again with J.N. Murrell, and also with l.M. Mills at Reading. In 1981, he started a collaboration on rovibrational variational theory with N.C. Handy at Cambridge, which continues to this day. He has had other positions in the meantime, most notably with P. Rosmus in Frankfurt,... 

It is not clear why Oxford failed to keep the momentum of the Coulson school. Longuet-Higgins left for Manchester, Orgel went to Cambridge and Dewar left for the USA before 1960 and we describe the formation and history of the resultant minor department of theoretical chemistry formed after 1970 later. Sections 7.6.6 and 7.7.3. Some believe that Hinshelwood was not enthusiastic about such theoretical approaches to chemistry, apparently... 

In 1933,]. E. (John) Lennard-Jones became the John Humphrey Plummer Professor of Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Cambridge. During his tenure of the Chair, the Department showed great strength in calculational... 

John E. Lennaid ones was professor of theoietical chemistry of the University of Cambridge, UK. The reader may find a historic picture of the theoretical chemistry team in Intern. J. Quantum Chemistry, S23 (1989), page XXXII. 

John Pople (1925-2004), British mathematician arxt one of the fouiKleFS of the modern quantum chemistry. His childhood was spent in difficult war time in En and (every day 25 mile train journeys, sometimes urxfer bombing). He came from a lower middle class family (diapers and farmers), but his parents were ambitious for the future of their children. At the age of twelve John developed an intense interest in mathematics. He entered Cambridge University after receiving a special scholarship. John Pople made important contributions to theoretical chemistry, lb cite a few proposing semi-empirical methods — the farmus PPP method for IT electron systems, the once very popular CNDO approach for all valence calculations, arxi finally the rmnumenlal joint work on... 

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