Quantum Chemistry qua Applied Mathematics: Approximation Methods and Crunching Numbers
Quantum Chemistry qua Applied Mathematics: Approximation Methods and Crunching Numbers
In Britain, John Edward Lennard-Jones, Douglas Rayner Hartree, and Charles Alfred Coulson played important roles in expanding the domain of applied mathematics to include quantum chemistry. This chapter examines some of the contributions of the British quantum chemists and how their immersion in the new subdiscipline was shaped by the Cambridge tradition of mathematical physics/applied mathematics. It looks at Ralph Howard Fowler’s work on quantum physics, which reflects the receptivity shown by some Cambridge researchers to the possibilities for chemistry offered by the new quantum mechanics. It also considers the 1923 Faraday Society meeting attended by physicists such as Gilbert Newton Lewis, Robert Robertson, Thomas M. Lowry, Arthur Lapworth, and Nevil Vincent Sidgwick, as well as the 1931 British Association for the Advancement of Science meeting, the 1933 Faraday Society meeting, and the 1934 International Conference in Physics.
Keywords: John Edward Lennard-Jones, Douglas Rayner Hartree, Charles Alfred Coulson, applied mathematics, quantum chemistry, Ralph Howard Fowler, quantum physics, Faraday Society, British Association for the Advancement of Science, International Conference in Physics
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