Article ID: CBB000083152

Chemical translators: Pauling, Wheland and their strategies for teaching the theory of resonance (1999)

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Description “This paper investigates the ways in which Pauling and Wheland taught, and taught about, the theory of resonance, especially their ways of coping with the difficulties of translating a quantum-mechanical concept into chemical language.”


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Authors & Contributors
Simões, Ana I.
Gavroglu, Kostas
Nye, Mary Jo
Schettino, Vincenzo
Califano, Salvatore
James, Jeremiah
Journals
History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences
Testi e Contesti: Quaderni di Scienze, Storia e Societa
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker, Fachgruppe Geschichte der Chemie
Publishers
The MIT Press
Princeton University Press
Oxford University Press
Istituto Gramsci siciliano
Firenze University Press
Concepts
Quantum chemistry
Chemistry
Physics
Physical chemistry
Mathematics
Biographies
People
Pauling, Linus Carl
Lewis, Gilbert Newton
Coulson, Charles Alfred
Slater, John Clarke
Mulliken, Robert Sanderson
Wrinch, Dorothy Maud
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, early
Places
United States
Germany
Great Britain
Italy
Europe
Canada
Institutions
California Institute of Technology
University of California, Berkeley
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT
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