Department of Theoretical Chemistry University of Cambridge. Reprints Volume VI 1949 - 1952 Structure of Molecules

Various journals. Original stamped, cloth binding.. Very good; infrequent misc. pencil notations.. Royal 8vo, [6 - recto only, typescript pages of a title and 4 pages of contents] followed by 19 offprints (retaining the original journal pagination) and bearing the printed acknowledgement before each drop title: Reprinted without change of pagination from the Proceedings .... All bound between card stock printed as numerically sequenced tabbed dividers along with 2 additional inserted offprints. The volume bearing the autograph presentation of Lennard-Jones (truncated) on the front endpaper: "With compliments & kind regards / J E Lennard-Jones / April, 1953". The presentation beneath the ownership signature of Robert S Mulliken - Nobel laureate in Chemistry in 1966 for work similar to that of Lennard-Jones.

Molecular orbitals and chemical bonding are the primary topics of these Jones papers co-authored with his graduate assistants. There are 11 sequential papers entitled: Molecular Orbital Theory and Valency issued between 1949-1952 in the Proceedings of the Royal Society. Added to these, the remaining papers - from varied journals - are all related to chemical bonding, electronic structure and spatial relations of electrons in atoms and molecules. A superb association of some of the most original work - apart from Pauling - of these two Nobel laureates. It would be difficult to find a more apposite group of research papers for Mulliken and Lennard-Jones. Several papers in the volume are co-authored with John Pople (a student of Lennard-Jones in this period and future Nobel laureate in Chemistry in 1998), A C Hurley (who studied under Dirac at Cambridge and then with Lennard-Jones), and G G Hall (the latter were mathematicians - there is no Nobel Prize offered in the field of mathematics). Each had a profound impact on the field of "quantum chemistry" in its nascent days. A unique volume (?) - there is no copy at Cambridge or in the Lennard-Jones papers and nothing recorded in OCLC; DSB, VIII, 185-187 for Lennard-Jones. (Inventory #: 23062)