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Peter William Atkins
Born
(1940-08-10) 10 August 1940 (age 83)
Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England
Alma mater
University of Leicester
Known for
Academic-level chemistry textbooks
Spouses
Judith Kearton
(m. 1964; div. 1983)
Susan Greenfield
(m. 1991; div. 2005)
Patricia-Jean Nobes
(m. 2008)
Awards
RSC Meldola Medal
Scientific career
Fields
Physical chemistry
Institutions
University of California, Los Angeles
Lincoln College, Oxford
Doctoral advisor
MCR Symons
Doctoral students
Laurence Barron
David Broomhead
Peter William AtkinsFRSC (born 10 August 1940) is an English chemist and a Fellow of Lincoln College at the University of Oxford. He retired in 2007. He is a prolific writer of popular chemistry textbooks, including Physical Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, and Molecular Quantum Mechanics. Atkins is also the author of a number of popular science books, including Atkins' Molecules, Galileo's Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science and On Being.
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H (Z=1) to Lw (Z=103)". University of Guelph. Retrieved 2018-07-12. PeterAtkins & Loretta Jones, Chemical principles: the quest for insight [Variation...
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of Gases". www.chem.hope.edu. Hope College. Retrieved 6 April 2021. PeterAtkins and Julio de Paula, Physical Chemistry (8th ed., W.H.Freeman 2006) p...
ISBN 0-471-41799-8. The calculation used a B3LYP functional and a 6-31+G* basis set. PeterAtkins and Julio de Paula, Physical Chemistry (8th ed., W.H. Freeman 2006),...
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