Review of Neither Physics nor Chemistry: A History of Quantum Chemistry

摘要

A large fraction of the undergraduate chemistry curriculum is devoted to the understanding of molecular structure and bonding using the various ideas developed by chemists during the 20th century: Lewis structures, and the valence bond and molecular orbital theories. Few of us who teach chemistry, however, know how these theories developed or much about the scientists who struggled to understand how quantum mechanics could be applied to understanding of the chemical bond. This new book by Kostas Gavroglu and Ana Simo?es tells the fascinating history of the development of the subdiscipline of quantum chemistry and the effort to understand the chemical bond.