Advances in Chemical Physics, Volume 110 / Edition 1

Advances in Chemical Physics, Volume 110 / Edition 1

ISBN-10:
0471331805
ISBN-13:
9780471331803
Pub. Date:
10/08/1999
Publisher:
Wiley
ISBN-10:
0471331805
ISBN-13:
9780471331803
Pub. Date:
10/08/1999
Publisher:
Wiley
Advances in Chemical Physics, Volume 110 / Edition 1

Advances in Chemical Physics, Volume 110 / Edition 1

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Overview

This series provides the chemical physics field with a forum for critical, authoritative evaluations of advances in every area of the discipline. Volume 110 continues to report recent advances with important, up-to-date chapters contributed by internationally recognized researchers.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780471331803
Publisher: Wiley
Publication date: 10/08/1999
Series: Advances in Chemical Physics , #127
Edition description: Volume 110 ed.
Pages: 557
Product dimensions: 6.34(w) x 9.39(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

ILYA PRIGOGINE is Director of the Instituts Internationaux de Physique et de Chimie, E. Solvay, Brussels, Belgium. Dr. Prigogine is also the Ashbel Smith Professor of Physics at The University of Texas at Austin, where he is also Director of the Ilya Prigogine Center for Studies in Statistical Mechanics and Complex Systems. In 1977 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

STUART A. RICE received his master's and doctorate from Harvard University and was a Junior Fellow at Harvard for two years before joining the faculty of The University of Chicago in 1957 where he remains a well-known theoretical chemist who also does experimental research and is currently the Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at The University of Chicago. Professor Rice has served the university in a wide variety of capacities during his forty-eight year tenure. He served as the director of the James Franck Institute (the university's center for physical chemistry and condensed matter physics) from 1961 to 1967, was Chairman of the Department of Chemistry from 1971 to 1976 and was Dean of the Physical Sciences Division from 1981 to 1995. In 1999 he received the National Medal of Science.
In addition to his work at the University, he is currently on the Board of Governors at Argonne National Laboratory, managed by and affiliated with The University of Chicago, as well as Tel Aviv University. He has served as editor for Chemical Physics Letters, in addition to the series on Advances in Chemical Physics. He currently maintains a full research lab but has retired from teaching classes.

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INTRODUCTION

Few of us can any longer keep up with the flood of scientific literature, even in specialized subfields. Any attempt to do more and be broadly educated with respect to a large domain of science has the appearance of tilting at windmills. Yet the synthesis of ideas drawn from different subjects into new, powerful, general concepts is as valuable as ever, and the desire to remain educated persists in all scientists. This series, Advances in Chemical Physics, is devoted to helping the reader obtain general information about a wide variety of topics in chemical physics, a field that we interpret very broadly. Our intent is to have experts present comprenhensive analyses of subjects of interest and to encourage the expression of individual points of view. We hope that this approach to the presentation of an overview of a subject will both stimulate new research and serve as a personalized learning text for beginners in a field.

I. PRIGOGINE

STUART A. RICE

Table of Contents

A Critical Assessment of the Coupled Cluster Method in Quantum Chemistry (J. Paldus & X. Li).

On the Electronic Spectra of Small Linear Polyenes (R. McDiarmid).

Understanding Electron Correlation: Recent Progress in Molecular Synchrotron Photoelectron Spectroscopy (A. Bawagan & E. Davidson).

Developments in Parallel Electronic Structure Theory (G. Fletcher, et al.).

Experimental and Theoretical Bubble Dynamics (W. Lauterborn, et al.).

Acid-Base Proton Transfer and Ion Pair Formation in Solution (K. Ando & J. Hynes).

Structures, Spectroscopies, and Reactions of Atomic Ions with Water Clusters (K. Fuke, et al.).

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Introduction

INTRODUCTION

Few of us can any longer keep up with the flood of scientific literature, even in specialized subfields. Any attempt to do more and be broadly educated with respect to a large domain of science has the appearance of tilting at windmills. Yet the synthesis of ideas drawn from different subjects into new, powerful, general concepts is as valuable as ever, and the desire to remain educated persists in all scientists. This series, Advances in Chemical Physics, is devoted to helping the reader obtain general information about a wide variety of topics in chemical physics, a field that we interpret very broadly. Our intent is to have experts present comprehensive analyses of subjects of interest and to encourage the expression of individual points of view. We hope that this approach to the presentation of an overview of a subject will both stimulate new research and serve as a personalized learning text for beginners in a field.

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