Theoretical Chemistry Department

As mentioned in Section 7.6.6 the theoretical department became effectively isolated from the rest of Chemistry under Professor March, 1976-1994, who was more of a physicist than a chemist. It had M.S. Child and D.B. Abraham both appointed as lecturers in the department before 1975 but no more appointments were made. As it remained a very small organisation it was transferred to physical chemistry in 1994. This was unexceptional as this laboratory had itself several theoreticians including Rowlinson, described above, P.A. Madden, D.E. Logan (1986), D.E. Manolopoulos (1995), D.C. Clary (2002) and J.P.K. Doye (2006), where Clary had special interests mainly in chemical 

An interesting development in organic chemistry has been the growth in the studies of saccharide (sugar) chemistry to put beside the more conventional carbon/nitrogen framework chemistry that has a sustained history in the laboratory from Perkin s time to the present day. One of the first to take up the new area was G.W.J. Fleet (1980) but it has developed so quickly that he is now one of nine members of the Oxford Glycochemistry Centre, which is headed by 

Schofield. The glycome studies are linked to research initiated by R.A. Dwek in biochemistry that has a special Glycobiology laboratory which has been heavily supported by Monsanto. The Oxford Glycochemistry Centre has been greatly aided by both physical and biology Research Councils and industrial grants. 

Organo-metallic Davies (S.G.), Brown, Hodgson, Peach 

Baldwin, Adlington, Gouverneur (F-chemistry), Moloney, Robertson, Donohoe, Jones, Robinson, Jones (J.H.), Peach Fleet, Fairbanks, Davis (B.G.), Gouverneur, 

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Chemists are rarely sentimental, particularly about other chemists. As is the case within any branch of science, the professional chemist finds himself in a world of rivalry (good-natured or otherwise) all too often polarised around personalities. To this world, C. A. Coulson brought a quality of vision, warmth and kindness that only those who knew him could appreciate. We feel that to have been members of his group at the Oxford University Mathematical Institute, and then to have moved with him to his Theoretical Chemistry Department, represents the rarest of privileges—speak to any Coulson-Chemist and you will evoke the same response. 

In 1952 Charles Coulson was elected to the Rouse-Ball Chair in applied mathematics as mentioned in Section 7.5.1. His deep interest was in chemical bonding, which through the development of wave mechanics had become in effect a branch of mathematics. It did not appear, however, that Hinshelwood considered the intrusion of this type of mathematics into chemistry to be of great consequence, see Section 7.5.1. In 1972 a chair in a separate theoretical chemistry department was made available for Coulson and after his death in 1974 it became known as the Coulson Chair of Theoretical Chemistry. M.S. Child (1966) and D.B. Abraham (1972) were appointed earlier to lectureships in this department. Coulson was succeeded by N.H. March (1975) and as a consequence at the end of the next section we shall relate how the theoretical chemistry chair with it a distinct department were for a while almost lost to chemistry and were then incorporated into physical chemistry in 1994. However, there were several theoretical chemists appointed in the physical chemistry laboratory well before 1980. 

This work is dedicated to Prof. Osvaldo Goscinski on the occasion of his 65th birthday. This work is supported in part by the Basic Research Foundation administered by the Israeli Academy of Sciences and Humanities and by the Fund for the Promotion of Research at Technion. The authors wish to thank Prof. U. Peskin for many helpful discussions and comments. OEA would like to thank the European Community for support (Marie-Curie Fellowship). V.A. would like to thank the Minerva Foundation for financial support. OEA and V.A. would like to acknowledge the hospitality of the Theoretical Chemistry department of Heidelberg University where part of this work has been completed. 

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Once the war was over in 1945, Fuoss accepted the Sterling Chair in Chemistry at Yale. The team of Onsager, Kirkwood and Fuoss made Yale the premier theoretical chemistry department in the world at this time. The focus of his work at Yale was on electrolyte solutions, polyelectrolytes and the statistical mechanics of condensed phase systems. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1951. While his interests continued to evolve after this period in directions different than the community of polymer scientists, his contribution to the period of the consolidation of the basic paradigms was seminal. The unique phenomena associated with linear polyelectrolytes stimulated much theoretical activity, both in the time of Fuoss and afterward. It remains a challenging, but rewarding, topic today. 

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