Advances in Chemical Physics, Vol. 111 - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0471349909 ISBN 13: 9780471349907

Publisher: Wiley-Interscience, 2000

Synopsis

This series provides the chemical physics community with a forum for critical, authoritative evaluations of advances in every area of the discipline. Volume 111 continues to report recent advances with significant, up-to-date chapters by internationally-recognized researchers.

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About the Author

ILYA PRIGOGINE is Director of the Instituts Internationaux de Physique et de Chimie, E. Solvay, Brussels, Belgium. Dr. Prigogine is also the Ashbel Smith Professor of Physics at The University of Texas at Austin, where he is also Director of the Ilya Prigogine Center for Studies in Statistical Mechanics and Complex Systems. In 1977 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

STUART A. RICE received his master's and doctorate from Harvard University and was a Junior Fellow at Harvard for two years before joining the faculty of The University of Chicago in 1957 where he remains a well-known theoretical chemist who also does experimental research and is currently the Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at The University of Chicago. Professor Rice has served the university in a wide variety of capacities during his forty-eight year tenure. He served as the director of the James Franck Institute (the university's center for physical chemistry and condensed matter physics) from 1961 to 1967, was Chairman of the Department of Chemistry from 1971 to 1976 and was Dean of the Physical Sciences Division from 1981 to 1995. In 1999 he received the National Medal of Science.
In addition to his work at the University, he is currently on the Board of Governors at Argonne National Laboratory, managed by and affiliated with The University of Chicago, as well as Tel Aviv University. He has served as editor for Chemical Physics Letters, in addition to the series on Advances in Chemical Physics. He currently maintains a full research lab but has retired from teaching classes.

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Advances in Chemical Physics, Volume 111

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Contents

Hydrogen Bonds with Large Proton Polarizability and Proton Transfer Processes in Electrochemistry and Biology By Georg Zundel...................................................1Phase Space Approach to Dissipative Molecular Dynamics By Daniela Kohen and David J. Tannor.....................................................................................219Microscopic Theories of the Rheology of Stable Colloidal Dispersions By Robert A. Lionberger and W. B. Russel...................................................................399The Rotational g Factor of Diatomic Molecules in State [sup.1][[summation].sup.+] or [0.sup.+] By J. F. Ogilvie, J. Oddershede, and Stephan P. A. Sauer III.....................475A Comparative Study of Electron- and Positron- Polyatomic Molecule Scattering By Mineo Kimura, Osamu Sueoka, Akira Hamada, and Yukikazu Itikawa.................................537Author Index.....................................................................................................................................................................623Subject Index....................................................................................................................................................................639

Introduction

Few of us can any longer keep up with the flood of scientific literature, even in specialized subfields. Any attempt to do more and be broadly educated with respect to a large domain of science has the appearance of tilting at windmills. Yet the synthesis of ideas drawn from different subjects into new, powerful, general concepts is as valuable as ever, and the desire to remain educated persists in all scientists. This series, Advances in Chemical Physics, is devoted to helping the reader obtain general information about a wide variety of topics in chemical physics, a field that we interpret very broadly. Our intent is to have experts present comprehensive analyses of subjects of interest and to encourage the expression of individual points of view. We hope that this approach to the presentation of an overview of a subject will both stimulate new research and serve as a personalized learning text for beginners in a field. I. Prigogine Stuart A. Rice

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Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0471349909
• ISBN 13: 9780471349907
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 664
• Editor: Prigogine Ilya, Rice Stuart A.