Rosenfeld formulation

Using the framework of the Rosenfeld formulation, Condon, Altar, and Eyring have given a quantum explanation of circular dichroism. Their treatment shows that the variation of the field vectors over the finite dimensions of the molecule also requires that the transition probabilities be different for left and right circularly polarized light. In particular, it follows from their work that the difference in transition probabilities is related to the rotational strength in almost exactly the same way as the mean transition probability is related to the dipole strength. On an intuitive basis, this result is eminently reasonable in view of the similar nature of... 

MSN.75.1. Prigogine, C. George, F. Henin, and L. Rosenfeld, [PGHR], A unified formulation of dynamics and thermodynamics, Chem. Scripta 4, 5-32 (1973). 

There is increasing interest among philosophers of science to study chemistry as a distinct branch of science. An emergent group (e.g. McIntyre, 1999 Scerri, 1996) have contributed to the formulation of the new field of philosophy of chemistry . The First International Conference on Philosophy of Chemistry was held in 1994. The annual meetings of the American Chemical Society have been devoting sessions to issues surrounding the interplay of philosophy and chemistry. The first issue of a new journal. Foundations of Chemistry, dedicated to philosophy of chemistry was published in 1999. There is now an on-hne journal, HYLE, where philosophical analyses of chemistry are reported. Finally, numerous recent books have focussed on philosophy of chemistry as their subject of study (e.g. Bhushan Rosenfeld, 2000 van Brakel, 2000). 

Bohr would point to those scenes, Rosenfeld notes, in which the licentiate describes how he loses the count of his many egos, or [discourses] on the impossibility of formulating a thought, and from these fanciful antinomies he would lead his interlocutor. .. to the heart of the problem of unambiguous communication of experience, whose earnestness he thus dramatically emphasized. Rosenfeld worshiped Bohr he failed to see, or chose not to report, that for Bohr the struggles of the licentiate were more than fanciful antinomies. ... 

Prigogine, L, George, C., Henin, F., and Rosenfeld, L. Unified formulation of dynamics and thermodynamics. With special reference to non-equilibrium statistical thermodynamics. Chem. Scr., 4(1), 5-32, 1973. 

The rotational strength R is also formulated by the Rosenfeld equation ... 

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