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Annual Review of Physical Chemistry

Volume 62, 2011

Laboring in the Vineyard of Physical Chemistry

Abstract

Prologue

This is an account mostly of what I have seen and worked on in physical chemistry, from my time in graduate school six decades ago to the present. It is a personal story about kinetics, thermodynamics, and statistical mechanics—in which subjects I continue to be educated, thanks to patient instruction by my students and associates.

When I had the invitation from Steve Leone to write this article I said “yes” because (a) “yes” is my default setting; (b) it was a great honor to have been invited to do it; and (c) I was too busy at the time to think about what the consequences of saying “yes” would be. I must now do my best to fulfill my promise.

Keyword(s): Autobiography, chemical kinetics, critical points, interfaces, theory of liquids
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