Optical, Electric and Magnetic Properties of Molecules: A Review of the Work of A. D. Buckingham

D.C. Clary, B.J. Orr9780444825964, 0444825967

This book celebrates the career and scientific accomplishments of Professor David Buckingham, who is due to retire from his Chair at Cambridge University in 1997.The adopted format comprises reprints of a number of David Buckingham’s key scientific papers, each one or two of these preceded by a review of the corresponding area of David’s wide-ranging research interest. Each reviewer is recognised as an expert in that field of interest and has some close association with David Buckingham, as a scientific colleague and/or a former research student. The book should serve as a distinctive reference source, both retrospective and prospective, for the field of chemical physics with which the name A.D. Buckingham is associated.The editors opted to reprint a majority of early classic Buckingham papers, balanced by some of David Buckingham’s more recent publications. Reprinted papers have been placed into a general scientific context that covers prior influences on, and later impacts by, the work nominated for review.

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Table of contents :
Optical, Electric and Magnetic Properties of Molecules……Page 4
Copyright Page……Page 5
Preface……Page 6
Table of contents……Page 8
Acknowledgements……Page 10
List of contributors……Page 12
Foreword……Page 14
The career of A.D. Buckingham……Page 22
The scientific publications of A.D. Buckingham……Page 38
Review by David A. Dunmur……Page 62
Reprinted paper [B13]……Page 70
Reprinted paper [B14]……Page 76
Review by Geoffrey L. D. Ritchie……Page 88
Addendum: recollections by Raymond L. Disch……Page 98
Reprinted paper [B58]……Page 102
Review by Martin Bogaard……Page 118
Reprinted paper [B80]……Page 126
Reprinted paper [B198]……Page 142
Review by Anthony Stone……Page 154
Reprinted paper [B220]……Page 158
Review by William Klemperer……Page 170
Reprinted paper [B89]……Page 176
Review by Tony Legon……Page 212
Reprinted paper [B221]……Page 220
Review by C.G. Gray and C.G. Joslin……Page 228
Reprinted paper [B45]……Page 244
Review by C.A. de Lange……Page 252
Reprinted paper [B 117]……Page 266
Review by John F. Ward……Page 278
Reprinted paper [B 17]……Page 284
Reprinted paper [B208]……Page 292
Review by Laurence Barron……Page 304
Reprinted paper [B276]……Page 312
Review by Cynthia Jameson……Page 324
Reprinted paper [B54]……Page 340
Review by Elliott Burnell……Page 348
Reprinted paper [B55]……Page 356
Reprinted paper [B59]……Page 362