This book is meant as a textbook, and can also be used for self-study as well as for courses at the senior undergraduate and beginning graduate levels. Knowledge of physical chemistry is assumed, but the discussions start at an elementary level and develop upward. This revision comes twenty years after publication of the first edition, and provides valuable new and updated coverage.

    As the pioneering text in the field and as the text still preferred today, Molecular Vibrations is the undeniable choice of anyone teaching or studying molecular spectroscopy at the graduate level. It is the only book of its kind in the area written by well-known scientists, and besides its value as a pedagogical classic, it is an essential reference for anyone engaged in research. The genius of the book is its rigorous, elegant treatment of the mathematics involved in detailed vibrational analyses of polyatomic molecules. The reader is led carefully and gradually through the main features of the theory and its methods: starting from a valuable introduction to the theory of molecular vibrations and the application of wave mechanics to this subject; leading into the mathematical methods devised by Professor Wilson and his students for handling the mathematical problems and for making use of symmetry and group theory; proceeding through vibrational selection rules and intensities, potential functions and methods of solving the secular determinant; and concluding with a sample vibrational analysis of the molecule of benzene. Sixteen appendices, comprising nearly one hundred pages, offer much extremely useful information that is more clearly understood outside the body of the text. Well-known for their distinguished contributions to the field, the authors — in addition to Professor Wilson of Harvard University — are J. C. Decius of Oregon State University and Paul C. Cross, late President of Mellon Institute. Younger students interested in the field of molecular spectroscopy will especially welcome this inexpensive reprint edition of an exceptional book. "An authoritative and complete presentation written on a very high level." — G. Herzberg, Science"The easiest and quickest route to acquiring skill in handling the mathematics of molecular vibrations." — Nature

    Three-part series remains the definitive text on the physical properties of biological macromolecules and the physical techniques used to study them.  It is appropriate for a broad spectrum of advanced undergraduate and graduate courses and serves as a comprehensive reference for researchers.Part I: The Conformation of Biological Macromolecules1980, paper, 365 pages, 158 illustrations 0-7167-1188-5 Part II: Techniques for the Study of Biological Structure and Function1980, paper, 365 pages, 158 illustrations 0-7167-1190-7 Part III: The Behavior of Biological Macromolecules1980, paper, 597 pages, 243 illustrations 0-7167-1192-3

    Three-part series remains the definitive text on the physical properties of biological macromolecules and the physical techniques used to study them.  It is appropriate for a broad spectrum of advanced undergraduate and graduate courses and serves as a comprehensive reference for researchers.Part II discusses the techniques used in the study of biological structure and function, treating a few in considerable detail rather than attempting to describe every technique known.Part I: The Conformation of Biological Macromolecules1980, paper, 365 pages, 158 illustrations 0-7167-1188-5 Part II: Techniques for the Study of Biological Structure and Function1980, paper, 365 pages, 158 illustrations 0-7167-1190-7 Part III: The Behavior of Biological Macromolecules1980, paper, 597 pages, 243 illustrations 0-7167-1192-3

    Designed for use in inorganic, physical, and quantum chemistry courses, this textbook includes numerous questions and problems at the end of each chapter and an Appendix with answers to most of the problems.

    The last generation has seen a revolution in the methodology adopted by historians of science: The development of science is no longer described as a steady progress towards truth - certainties have given way to questions. The essays in this volume scrutinize these changing perspectives in historiography and recommend paths for future study. The eighteenth century has been a neglected and much-misunderstood era in the development of science, all too often viewed as something of a trough between the towering achievements of the 'Scientific Revolution' and the nineteenth century. Yet it was a period of notable developments; it saw the establishment of such fields as electricity and heat, the 'chemical revolution', the new science of gases, the isolation of oxygen, the nebular hypothesis in cosmology, the foundation of rational mechanics, and the birth pangs of biology, geology and psychology. It was, indeed, an age when knowledge was in ferment.