Nikko Symposium

The 1953 Nikko Symposium and Slater s Solid-State and Molecular Theory Group... 

Four years after the Shelter Island Conference and 1 year after the Nikko Symposium, it had become clear that commercially developed computers could handle programs for large computations in the foreseeable future. But although computer technology was making big strides, the cost for using them remained forbidding. 

A different way of looking at these problems was exemplified by Coulson s intervention at the Nikko Symposium, in which he contrasted the "easy" with the "hard" methods in doing quantum chemistry, and which followed smoothly his many considerations steadfastly voiced since the time he became the Rouse Ball Professor of Applied Mathematics at Oxford in 1951 (figure 4.3), and which culminated in the after-dinner address at the 1959 Boulder Conference. More than anyone else he was a stubborn and committed advocate of methodological pluralism, of the possibilities for exploring different approaches in different problems, always eager to compare and... 

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Mulliken, R. S., Symposium on Molecular Physics, Nikko, Japan, 1953, p. 45. 

Kotani, M., Y. Kakiuchi, and G. Araki. 1954. Preface. In Symposium on molecular physics. Held at Nikko on the occasion of the International Conference on Theoretical Physics. Tokyo Mamzen Co., Ltd. 

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