Quantum chemistry German approach

Despite participants assessments as stated above, differences in styles played a role in the early developments of quantum chemistry not only in what was referred to as differences between the Heitler-London school and the molecular orbital school but, more dramatically, in what related to the contrast between physically oriented approaches of German physicists and chemically oriented approaches of American scientists. Geographical differences were after all a subsidiary manifestation of strong differences in the institutional settings that provided the educational backgrounds of members of future quantum chemical communities. 

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