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Robin M. Hochstrasser, Department of Chemistry, The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A,... 

In 1975, University of Pennsylvania scientists reported synthesis of polymeric sulfur nitride. 

The lac repressor monomer, a chain of 360 amino acids, associates into a functionally active homotetramer. It is the classic member of a large family of bacterial repressors with homologous amino acid sequences. PurR, which functions as the master regulator of purine biosynthesis, is another member of this family. In contrast to the lac repressor, the functional state of PurR is a dimer. The crystal structures of these two members of the Lac I family, in their complexes with DNA fragments, are known. The structure of the tetrameric lac repressor-DNA complex was determined by the group of Mitchell Lewis, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, and the dimeric PurR-DNA complex by the group of Richard Brennan, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland. 

Furukawa, Y. (1998) Inventing Polymer Science (University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia). 

Hochheiser, S. (1986). Rohm and Haas History of a Chemical Company. Philadelphia, PA University of Pennsylvania Press. 

Hanna, L. M. (1983). Modeling of heat and water vapor transport in the human respiratory tract. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. 

Max-Planck-Institut fiir Metallforschung Institut fiir Werkstoffwissenschaft Seestrafie 92, 70174 Stuttgart, FRG Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania,... 

This volume is based partly on the lecture notes of K. C. N. that were used for teaching courses at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of California, San Diego, and The Scripps Research Institute. We apologize sincerely to those whose brilliant works have been left out owing to the inevitable closing of the curtain and hope that in the event of a second volume we can rectify these omissions. We also apologize in advance for the inevitable errors that a volume of this size may contain, and welcome constructive comments from our readers in order to correct such errors in future editions. 

K. C. Nicolaou was bom in 1946 in Cyprus. He studied chemistry at the University of London (B.Sc., 1969 Ph.D., 1972), Columbia University (postdoctoral research) and Harvard University (postdoctoral research). Between 1976 and 1989 he was a faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania. He currently holds joint appointments at The Scripps Research Institute, where he is the Darlene Shiley Professor of Chemistry and Chairman of the Department of Chemistry, and at the University of California, San Diego, where he is Professor of Chemistry. His research interests span the areas of synthetic organic chemistry, bioorganic chemistiy, molecular design, and the chemistry and biology of natural products. 

Mendeleev In his library, 1904. Courtesy of the Edgar Fahs Smith Collection, University of Pennsylvania Library. 

Gratch, S., Report of University of Pennsylvania Thermodynamics Research Laboratory, (1945—1946), quoted by T. J. Webster, ref. 90. 

Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA... 

Furukawa, Y. Inventing Polymer Science Staudinger, Carothers, and the Emergence of Macromalecular Chemistry University of Pennsylvania Press Philadelphia 1998. 

Ivan J. Dmochowski, University of Pennsylvania Ronald Drucker, City College of San Francisco Christian Ekberg, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden... 

J. W. Davenport. Theory of Photoemission from Molecules in the Gas Phase and on Solid Surfaces. Ph.D. thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 1976. 

A native of the state of New Hampshire, Donald Fitts developed an interest in chemistry at the age of eleven. He was awarded an A.B. degree, magna cum laude with highest honors in chemistry, in 1954 from Harvard University and a Ph.D. degree in chemistry in 1957 from Yale University for his theoretical work with John G. Kirkwood. After one-year appointments as a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Amsterdam, and as a Research Fellow at Yale s Chemistry Department, he joined the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania, rising to the rank of Professor of Chemistry. 

This book is intended as a text for a first-year physieal-ehemistry or ehemical-physies graduate eourse in quantum meehanies. Emphasis is plaeed on a rigorous mathematical presentation of the principles of quantum mechanics with applications serving as illustrations of the basic theory. The material is normally covered in the first semester of a two-term sequence and is based on the graduate course that I have taught from time to time at the University of Pennsylvania. The book may also be used for independent study and as a reference throughout and beyond the student s academic program. 

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