Physical chemistry
Physical Chemistry is the combined science of physics, chemistry, thermodynamics, and quantum mechanics which functions to provide molecular-level interpretations of observed macroscopic phenomena. Typically, changes in temperature, pressure, volume, heat, and work of systems in the solid, liquid, and or gas phase are correlated to microscopic atomic and molecular interactions. Most cite Willard Gibbs as the founder of physical chemistry as stemming from his 1876 paper: ?On the Equilibrium of Heterogeneous Substances?, wherein such cornerstones as free energy, chemical potential, and phase rule were developed.
Important physical chemists
- Svante Arrhenius
- Richard Bernstein
- E.J. Bowen
- Peter Debye
- Manfred Eigen
- Richard R. Ernst
- William Giauque
- J.W. Gibbs
- Fritz Haber
- Dudley R. Herschbach
- Gerhard Herzberg
- Jaroslav Heyrovskı
- Cyril Norman Hinshelwood
- J.H. van 't Hoff
- Roald Hoffmann
- Erich Hückel
- Friedrich Kohlrausch
- Irving Langmuir
- Yuan T. Lee
- Gilbert N. Lewis
- Frederick Lindemann
- Rudolph A. Marcus
- Robert S. Mulliken
- Walther Nernst
- Lars Onsager
- Wilhelm Ostwald
- Linus Pauling
- John Charles Polanyi
- Michael Polanyi
- Stuart A. Rice
- E. Bright Wilson
- Richard N. Zare
- Ahmed H. Zewail
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