Sturm und Drang

It is surprising that complicated dynamic behaviour proved to be characteristic of the simplest and quite ordinary kinetic models of catalytic reactions, namely of the Langmuir Hinshelwood adsorption mechanism. We are possibly at the initial stage of interpreting the kinetics of complex reactions and the "Sturm und Drang period has not yet been completed. 

We hope that the reader will understand modern chemical kinetics is once again experiencing romantic times, the period of Sturm und Drang, when new experiments and new theories persistently prompt each other to further progress. 

During the Sturm-und-Drang quantum period of the 1920s, Heisenberg s matrix mechanics and Schrodinger s equation have been established as very mathematized cornerstones of the rigorous theory of elementary chemical processes, which changed the field of chemistry dramatically. 

Friedrich ( Maler ) Muller, Gedanken uber Errichtung eines Deutschen Nationaltheaters (1777) in Sturm und Drang Kritische Schriflen, eds. E. Loewenthal and L. Schneider (Heidelberg Lambert Schneider, 1972), p. 774. 

G.A. Burger, Aus Daniel Wunderlichs Buck, 1776, Sturm und Drang Kritische Schriften, p. 804). 

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