This book celebrates the career and scientific accomplishments of Professor David Buckingham, who is due to retire from his Chair at Cambridge University in 1997.
The adopted format comprises reprints of a number of David Buckingham's key scientific papers, each one or two of these preceded by a review of the corresponding area of David's wide-ranging research interest. Each reviewer is recognised as an expert in that field of interest and has some close association with David Buckingham, as a scientific colleague and/or a former research student. The book should serve as a distinctive reference source, both retrospective and prospective, for the field of chemical physics with which the name A.D. Buckingham is associated.
The editors opted to reprint a majority of early classic Buckingham papers, balanced by some of David Buckingham's more recent publications. Reprinted papers have been placed into a general scientific context that covers prior influences on, and later impacts by, the work nominated for review.
1. Cover image 2. Title page 3. Table of Contents 4. Copyright 5. Preface 6. Acknowledgments 7. List of contributors 8. Foreword 9. The career of A.D. Buckingham 10. The scientific publications of A.D. Buckingham 11. Chapter 1: The electro-optic Kerr effect 12. Theoretical Studies of the Kerr Effect I: Deviations from a Linear Polarization Law 13. Theoretical Studies of the Kerr Effect II : The Influence of Pressure 14. Chapter 2: Field-gradient induced birefringence: a direct route to molecular quadrupole moments 15. Addendum: recollections by R.L. Disch 16. The quadrupole moment of the carbon dioxide molecule 17. Chapter 3: Rayleigh and Raman scattering 18. The polarization of laser light scattered by gases 19. Determination of derivatives of the polarizability anisotropy in diatomic molecules I. Theoretical considerations on vibration-rotation Raman intensities 20. Chapter 4: Forces on nuclei 21. RELATION OF THE ELECTRIC FIELD AT A NUCLEUS TO OTHER MOLECULAR PROPERTIES 22. Chapter 5: Intermolecular forces and molecular moments 23. Chapter 2: Permanent and Induced Molecular Moments and Long-Range Intermolecular Forces 24. Chapter 6: Van der Waals molecules 25. A model for the geometries of Van der Waals complexes 26. Chapter 7: Solvent effects in vibrational spectra 27. SOLVENT EFFECTS IN VIBRATIONAL SPECTROSCOPY 28. Chapter 8: Towards rotationally resolved photoelectron spectroscopy 29. Angular distribution and intensity in molecular photoelectron spectroscopy I. General theory for diatomic molecules 30. Chapter 9: Nonlinear optics 31. Birefringence Resulting from the Application of an Intense Beam of Light to an Isotropic Medium 32. Optical second-harmonic generation in gases with a low-power laser 33. Chapter 10: Vibrational optical activity 34. Introductory Lecture The Theoretical Background to Vibrational Optical Activity 35. Chapter 11: NMR chemical shifts: theory and experiment 36. Medium Effects in Proton Magnetic Resonance. I. Gases 37. Chapter 12: Anisotropic NMR 38. Effects of a Strong Electric Field on N.M.R. Spectra The Absolute Sign of the Spin Coupling Constant 39. Inside Back Matter
This book celebrates the career and scientific accomplishments of Professor David Buckingham, who is due to retire from his Chair at Cambridge University in 1997.
The adopted format comprises reprints of a number of David Buckingham's key scientific papers, each one or two of these preceded by a review of the corresponding area of David's wide-ranging research interest. Each reviewer is recognised as an expert in that field of interest and has some close association with David Buckingham, as a scientific colleague and/or a former research student. The book should serve as a distinctive reference source, both retrospective and prospective, for the field of chemical physics with which the name A.D. Buckingham is associated.
The editors opted to reprint a majority of early classic Buckingham papers, balanced by some of David Buckingham's more recent publications. Reprinted papers have been placed into a general scientific context that covers prior influences on, and later impacts by, the work nominated for review.
1. Cover image 2. Title page 3. Table of Contents 4. Copyright 5. Preface 6. Acknowledgments 7. List of contributors 8. Foreword 9. The career of A.D. Buckingham 10. The scientific publications of A.D. Buckingham 11. Chapter 1: The electro-optic Kerr effect 12. Theoretical Studies of the Kerr Effect I: Deviations from a Linear Polarization Law 13. Theoretical Studies of the Kerr Effect II : The Influence of Pressure 14. Chapter 2: Field-gradient induced birefringence: a direct route to molecular quadrupole moments 15. Addendum: recollections by R.L. Disch 16. The quadrupole moment of the carbon dioxide molecule 17. Chapter 3: Rayleigh and Raman scattering 18. The polarization of laser light scattered by gases 19. Determination of derivatives of the polarizability anisotropy in diatomic molecules I. Theoretical considerations on vibration-rotation Raman intensities 20. Chapter 4: Forces on nuclei 21. RELATION OF THE ELECTRIC FIELD AT A NUCLEUS TO OTHER MOLECULAR PROPERTIES 22. Chapter 5: Intermolecular forces and molecular moments 23. Chapter 2: Permanent and Induced Molecular Moments and Long-Range Intermolecular Forces 24. Chapter 6: Van der Waals molecules 25. A model for the geometries of Van der Waals complexes 26. Chapter 7: Solvent effects in vibrational spectra 27. SOLVENT EFFECTS IN VIBRATIONAL SPECTROSCOPY 28. Chapter 8: Towards rotationally resolved photoelectron spectroscopy 29. Angular distribution and intensity in molecular photoelectron spectroscopy I. General theory for diatomic molecules 30. Chapter 9: Nonlinear optics 31. Birefringence Resulting from the Application of an Intense Beam of Light to an Isotropic Medium 32. Optical second-harmonic generation in gases with a low-power laser 33. Chapter 10: Vibrational optical activity 34. Introductory Lecture The Theoretical Background to Vibrational Optical Activity 35. Chapter 11: NMR chemical shifts: theory and experiment 36. Medium Effects in Proton Magnetic Resonance. I. Gases 37. Chapter 12: Anisotropic NMR 38. Effects of a Strong Electric Field on N.M.R. Spectra The Absolute Sign of the Spin Coupling Constant 39. Inside Back Matter
