Primas Hans

Primas, Hans. Chemistry, Quantum Mechanics, andReductionism. New York Springer Verlag, 1981. 

Primas, Hans. 1980. "Foundations of Theoretical Chemistry." In R. G. Woolley, ed. Quantum Dynamics of Molecules The New Experimental Challenge to Theorists, (pp. 39—113). New York Plenum. 

Hans Primas and Ulrich Mueller-Herold, Elementary Quantum Chemistry, 2nd ed., Teubner, Stuttgart, 1990. 

Hans Primas in Chemistry, Quantum Mechanics and Reductionism (Springer-Verlag, 1981)... 

We have insisted throughout the book that what we want to articulate is not the philosophical considerations of reductionism, the discussion of which in the case of quantum chemistry, and thus quantum mechanics, has been greatly enriched by contributions of Hans Primas (1983, 1988), Jeff Ramsey (1997), Eric Scerri (2007), and J. van Brakel (2000), among others, but rather the ways it has marked the culture of quantum chemists, the way the awareness of such a problem by the community of (quantum) chemists—in naive philosophical terms—permeated their practices. Though a number of them had expressed their "worries," reductionism in any of its variants was certainly not a paralyzing factor. Perhaps, one of the intriguing aspects of reductionism is that much of the discussion depends on the theoretical framework with respect to which such a discussion is realized. But, how has this problem appeared in the context of another theory in chemistry, that of chemical thermodynamics What... 

However, we wish to carefully distinguish between the above form of quantitative reduction of chemistry and what might be termed conceptual reduction . Such a distinction already has been made in the philosophy of chemistry, though perhaps somewhat obliquely, by Hans Primas, the author of the only book on the reduction of chemistry ... 

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