Lowdin, Per-Olov

Lowdin, Per-Olov. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Quantum Biology and Quantum Pharmacology John Wiley Sons New York, 1987. 

Lorenzo Echevarria, 217 Los loop, 301 Lotka Alfred J., 971, 980 Lotrich Victor, 850 Louis Edwin J., 505 Lowdin Per-Olov, 444, 445, 472, 581... 

The sixth article in this collection takes up the story from where paper 4 left off. If the n + (Madelung) rule can be fully reduced, then it might rightly be claimed that the periodic table reduces fully to quantum mechanics. This is a question that has been asked in a much-quoted paper by Per-Olov Lowdin, the influential quantum chemist who for many years led the Quantum Chemistry project at the University of Florida. 

The final paper in this collection is very recent and appeared in the International Journal of Quantum Chemistry where articles on Madelung s rule have previously been published. It was in this journal that its founder Per Olov Lowdin first drew attention to the fact that the rule had not yet been derived from quantum mechanics.24 More recently Allen and Knight published what they claimed provided just such a long-awaited derivation.25... 

W. H. E. Schwarz, Towards a Physical Explanation of the Periodic Table (PT) of Chemical Elements, in Fundamental World of Quantum Chemistry A Tribute to Per-Olov Lowdin, Vol. 3, E. Brandas, E. Kryachko (eds.), Springer, Dordrecht, pp. 645-669, 2004. Also see S.-G. Wang, W. H. E. Schwarz, Icon of Chemistry The Periodic System of Chemical Elements in the New Century, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2009 (in press). 

One of the authors to ask whether a theoretical derivation of the n + rule might be found was the late Per Olov Lowdin, who wrote... 

PER-OLOV LOWDIN, Quantum Chemistry Group, University of... 

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