Peter Atkins

Date personale
Peter Atkins

Născut	10 august 1940 (83 de ani)^[1] Amersham, Anglia, Regatul Unit
Căsătorit cu	Susan Greenfield[*] (1991–2005)
Număr de copii	1
Cetățenie	Regatul Unit
Religie	ateism
Ocupație	chimist autor de non-ficțiune[] cadru didactic universitar[] scriitor
Limbi vorbite	limba engleză^[4]^[5]^[6]
Activitate
Domiciliu	Oxford
Alma mater	Universitatea din Leicester Dr Challoner's Grammar School[*]
Organizație	Universitatea Oxford University of California, Los Angeles
Premii	Meldola Medal and Prize[] (1969)^[2] Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry[] James T. Grady-James H. Stack Award for Interpreting Chemistry[] (2016) Nyholm Prize for Education[] (1998)^[3]
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Peter Atkins (n. 10 august 1940, Amersham, Anglia, Regatul Unit) este un chimist britanic, autor al unei serii de tratate de chimie fizică și anorganică, și al unor cărți despre istoria ideilor științifice.

Opere[modificare | modificare sursă]

De interes pentru publicul larg[modificare | modificare sursă]

The Creation. W.H.Freeman & Co Ltd. 1981. ISBN 0-7167-1350-0.
The Second Law Scientific American Books, an imprint of W. H. Freeman and Company. 1984 ISBN 0-7167-5004-X
Creation revisited. W.H.Freeman & Co Ltd. 1993. ISBN 0-7167-4500-3.
Second Law: Energy, Chaos, and Form. W.H.Freeman & Co Ltd. 1994. ISBN 0-7167-5005-8.
The Periodic Kingdom: A journey into the land of the chemical elements. BasicBooks. 1995. ISBN 0-46-507266-6.
Atkins' Molecules. Cambridge University Press. 2003. ISBN 0-521-53536-0.
Galileo's Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science. Oxford University Press. 2003. ISBN 0-19-860941-8.
Four Laws That Drive the Universe. Oxford University Press. 2007. ISBN 0-19-923236-9.
On Being: A scientist's exploration of the great questions of existence. Oxford University Press. 2011. ISBN 0-19-960336-7.
Reactions: The private life of atoms. Oxford University Press. 2011. ISBN 0-19-969512-1.

Tratate universitare[modificare | modificare sursă]

Atkins, Peter W.; Symons, M. C. R. (1967). The Structure of Inorganic Radicals. Amsterdam, New York: Elsevier Pub. Co. OCLC 543225.
Atkins, Peter W. (1991). Quanta: A Handbook of Concepts (ed. 2nd). New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-198-55573-5.
Atkins, Peter W. (1995). The Periodic Kingdom: A Journey Into the Land of the Chemical Elements. New York: BasicBooks. ISBN 978-0-788-15518-5.
Atkins, Peter W.; Friedman, Ronald (2005). Molecular Quantum Mechanics (ed. 4th). Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-927498-3.
Atkins, Peter W. (2009). Quanta, Matter, and Change: A molecular approach to physical chemistry. New York: W. H. Freeman. ISBN 978-0-7167-6117-4.
Atkins, Peter W.; Shriver, D. F. (2010). Inorganic Chemistry (ed. 5th). W. H. Freeman. ISBN 978-1-4292-1820-7.
Atkins, Peter W.; Jones, Loretta (2010). Chemical Principles: The Quest for Insight (ed. 5th). New York: W. H. Freeman. ISBN 978-1-4292-1955-6.
Atkins, Peter W. (2010). Physical Chemistry (ed. 9th). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-954337-3.
Atkins, Peter W. (2011). Physical Chemistry for the Life Sciences (ed. 2nd). W.H. Freeman & Company. ISBN 978-1-4292-3114-5.