Scientific lectures

Title

Scientific lectures

Shelfmark

MS. Coulson 44

Summary

Folders B.24.1-B.24.2: 2 folders containing Coulson's MSS. of Summer School lecture notes, 1954-1973. Includes:

'What is atomic theory?'

'Atomic units'

'Hydrogen atoms'

Variation theory'

'Koopmans' theorem'

'Self-consistent fields'

'Dirac scheme'

'Excitors'

'History of Oxford'

'Effect of magnetic field on a molecule'

(Folder B.24.2. includes programmes and lists of members for the 1960-1962 Summer Schools)

Folder B.24.3: 'Hückel theory of organic chemistry', 1967-1973. MS. notes for Coulson's course of lectures to second year chemists, and related correspondence.

Folder includes ms. of chapter on [pi]-bonds, published in H. Eyring's series on Physical Chemistry.

Folder B.24.4: 'Problems in wave mechanics and quantum theory', 1964-1973. MS. notes for course of lectures, and problems sheets for distribution to students.

Folder B.24.5: MS. notes for course of lectures on mathematics for chemists, and related correspondence, 1973.

Folders B.24.6-B.24.8: MS. lecture notes for a one-year course in Wave Mechanics for M.Sc. students, Oxford, 1965-1974.

Folder B.24.6: 'The hydrogen atom'

Folder B.24.7: 'The helium atom'

Folder B.24.8: 'The hydrogen molecule' (includes a set of notes taken by Elizabeth Colbourn, a student attending the course in 1973)

Date

1954-1974

Language

English

Physical extent

8 folders