James R. Chelikowsky
(University of Texas at Austin)
6/19/14, 11:45 AM
Herzberg Public, Plenary, and Medal Talks / Conférenciers des sessions Herzberg, plénières et médaillés (CAP-ACP)
Plenary Speaker / Conférencier plénier
Over eight decades ago, after the invention of quantum mechanics, P. A. M. Dirac made the following observation: "The underlying physical laws necessary for the mathematical theory of a large part of physics and the whole of chemistry are thus completely known, and the difficulty is only that the exact application of these laws leads to equations much too complicated to be soluble. It...
