Neither Physics nor Chemistry: A History of Quantum Chemistry

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Index Abegg, R., 50 Academy of Sciences, 32, 64, 120, 202, 207, 237 Academy’s Committee on Science and Public Policy, 237, 238 Accuracy, 5, 142, 152, 157, 209, 210, 223, 227–228, 233, 234, 236, 239, 242, 245 Activation, 23–24, 99, 102 Adiabatic transition, 36, 43 Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), 238 Affinity, 6, 29, 32, 54, 77, 121, 123, 125, 181, 255 Air Force Cambridge Research Center, 220 Alvarez, L., 88 American Chemical Society, 18, 68, 69, 202 American Institute of Physics, 218 Americans, 85, 88, 98, 99, 101–102, 156, 160–161, 203 Ammonia, 152, 160 Analogy/ies, 10, 22, 36, 40–41, 43, 58, 70, 88, 119–120, 124, 154, 168, 172, 194, 209–210, 215, 254 Analytic calculations, 24, 224 Anderson, P. W., 208 Annus Mirabilis, 61 Antiparallel, 16–17, 65, 72, 181 Antisymmetry, 28, 89, 152 Appel, K., 212, 260 Appleton, E., 138 Appropriation, 54–55, 184, 246, 249, 250, 255, 257 Approximation(s), 3, 56, 58, 62, 65–68, 77, 79, 81, 84–85, 91–92, 95–96, 101–102, 105, 111, 115, 131–132, 139–141, 160, 166, 170–171, 177, 199, 201, 208–209, 215, 218, 221, 223–227, 230–231, 233, 236, 238, 252 Hartree-Fock, 236 Hückel LCAO, 201 methods, 96, 105, 115, 131–132, 139, 141, 171, 225 Pariser-Parr-Pople (PPP), 224 self-consistent field, 139–140 zero differential overlap, 224 Arbitrariness, 70, 73, 117–118, 180 Argon, 137–138 Armaments Research Department, 227 Armit, J. W., 30 Armstrong, H. E., 78, 109, 250 Army Research Office, 220 Arndt, F. G., 78 Aromatic molecules, 25, 30, 55, 148, 206, 232 Arrhenius, S., 149–249 Arsem, W. C., 51 Atom(s), 10, 14–16, 18–25, 27, 30, 32, 36, 39, 41–44, 46, 48–60, 62–68, 70–78, 80–81, 83–86, 88–94, 99–101, 103, 107, 109–111, 114, 121, 132–133, 135–141, 143–144, 146–151, 153, 157–158, 160, 162–164, 168–169, 172, 179, 182, 194, 202, 206, 210, 336 Index 212, 217–219, 234, 238, 247, 249, 251–252, 255–256, 259 cubic, 49–53 separated, 36, 43–44, 46, 57, 73, 76, 80, 91, 143, 210 united, 36, 43–44, 46, 57, 58, 73, 128, 144, 172 Atomic structure, 18, 21, 26, 50, 53–54, 133, 155 Aufbau, 3, 6, 39, 128, 144 Balliol College, Oxford, 167 Barnett, M. P., 203, 204, 260 Barriol, J., 190, 193, 198 Baudet, Jeanne, 190 Bauer, E., 191–192 Bayer, A., 78 Beaven, H. C., 158–159 Benzene, 27, 30, 55, 78–80, 110, 117, 124, 146–147, 152, 161–163, 167, 178–179, 195, 206, 221, 224 Bergmann, E., 195 Berlin, T. H., 203 Berthier, G., 190, 196 Berthod, Helène, 190 Besnainou, Sylvette, 190 Bethe, H., 95, 154 Binuclear orbit, 10, 55–58, 133 Biology, 2, 126, 138, 174, 193, 201–202, 217–219, 239, 253, 255, 260–261 Birge, R. T., 39, 41, 61, 69, 70, 87 Bishop, R., 256 Bjerrum, N., 11, 13–14 Blackett, P. M. S., 154 Bloch, F., 90–91 Bohr, N., 6, 10–11, 19, 27, 34, 39, 43, 48, 50, 53, 55, 57, 61, 89–90, 93–94, 107, 128, 133, 138–139, 151 Bohr’s atomic model, 53–54 Bond(s), 9, 14, 17–18, 22–23, 25, 28–29, 37, 50, 51–53, 58, 61–68, 70, 72–80, 83, 85–86, 91–93, 96, 99, 101–103, 108–109, 111, 114–115, 117–119, 124–125, 146–147, 149, 151–152, 161–169, 171–173, 177–178, 180–182, 184, 190, 192–196, 201, 206, 233–235, 242, 251 angles, 67–68, 77, 168 chemical, 3, 14–15, 25, 31, 47, 50–53, 55, 57–58, 61, 64–65, 67–69, 73, 75–79, 83–84, 86, 90, 102, 104–105, 108, 115–121, 125, 128, 132, 145, 149, 152, 166–167, 178, 181–182, 188–189, 192–194, 199, 205, 230, 251 covalent, 2, 31, 73, 76, 83, 108, 145–146, 251 directional character of, 66, 77 direction of, 66, 168 double, 25, 27–29, 50, 52, 74, 78, 81, 124, 146, 149, 161–162, 167, 195 electron-pair, 47, 53, 57–58, 64–66, 68, 73, 75, 81, 84, 145, 167, 206, 250 energy, 66, 76–77, 80, 102, 124, 206 homopolar bond, 14, 17, 37 length, 163, 165, 166, 231 nature of chemical, 15, 47, 50, 53, 57, 61, 64, 69, 73, 76, 77, 79...