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Computations and interpretations: The growth of quantum chemistry, 1927-1967.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Computations and interpretations: The growth of quantum chemistry, 1927-1967./
Author:	Park, Buhm Soon.
Description:	409 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 60-04, Section: A, page: 1300.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International60-04A.
Subject:	History of Science. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9927141
ISBN:	0599269081

Computations and interpretations: The growth of quantum chemistry, 1927-1967.
Park, Buhm Soon.

Computations and interpretations: The growth of quantum chemistry, 1927-1967. - 409 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 60-04, Section: A, page: 1300.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Johns Hopkins University, 1999.

This dissertation is a contribution to the historical study of scientific disciplines in the twentieth century. It seeks to examine the development of quantum chemistry during the four decades after its inception in 1927. This development was manifest in theories, tools, scientists, and institutions, all of which constituted the disciplinary identity of quantum chemistry. To characterize its identity, I deal with the origins of key ideas and concepts; the change of computational tools from desk calculators to digital computers; the formation of a network among research groups and individuals; and the institutionalization of annual meetings. The dissertation's thesis is three-fold. First, in the pre-World War II years, there were individual contributions to the development of theories in quantum chemistry, but the founding fathers worked in their disciplinary contexts of physics or chemistry with little interest in building a quantum chemistry community. Second, the introduction of electronic digital computers in the postwar years affected the resurgence of the ab initio approach---the attempt to solve the Schrodinger equation without recourse to empirical data---and also the emergence of a community of quantum chemists. But the use of computers did not give rise to a consensus over the aims, methods, or content of the discipline. Third, quantum chemistry exerted a significant influence upon the transformation of chemical education and research in general, thanks to "chemical translators," who sought to explain the gist of quantum chemistry in a language that chemists could understand. In sum, quantum chemistry has been a discipline characterized by diverse traditions, and the whole of chemistry has been under the influence of computations and interpretations made by quantum chemists.

ISBN: 0599269081Subjects--Topical Terms:

896972
History of Science.

Computations and interpretations: The growth of quantum chemistry, 1927-1967.
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