John Lennard-Jones

Sir
John Lennard-Jones
KBE FRS
Born
John Edward Jones

(1894-10-27)27 October 1894
Leigh, Lancashire, England
Died1 November 1954(1954-11-01) (aged 60)
Stoke-on-Trent, England
Alma materUniversity of Manchester
Trinity College, Cambridge
Known forLennard-Jones potential
LCAO
Spouse
Kathleen Lennard
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(m. 1925)​
Children2
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsMathematician
Institutions
Doctoral advisorRalph Howard Fowler[3]
Doctoral students

Sir John Edward Lennard-Jones KBE, FRS[1] (27 October 1894 – 1 November 1954) was a British mathematician and professor of theoretical physics at the University of Bristol, and then of theoretical science at the University of Cambridge. He was an important pioneer in the development of modern computational chemistry and theoretical chemistry.[3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]

  1. ^ a b Mott, N. F. (1955). "John Edward Lennard-Jones 1894–1954". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 1: 174–184. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1955.0013.
  2. ^ Mehra, Jagdish; Rechenberg, Helmut (2001). The Historical Development of Quantum Theory: Fundamental Equations of Quantum Mechanics and the Reception of the New Quantum Mechanics. Springer. p. 58. ISBN 978-0-387-95178-2.
  3. ^ a b c John Lennard-Jones at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ^ Jones, J. E. (1924). "On the Determination of Molecular Fields. I. From the Variation of the Viscosity of a Gas with Temperature". Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences. 106 (738): 441–462. Bibcode:1924RSPSA.106..441J. doi:10.1098/rspa.1924.0081.
  5. ^ Jones, J. E. (1924). "On the Determination of Molecular Fields. II. From the Equation of State of a Gas". Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences. 106 (738): 463–477. Bibcode:1924RSPSA.106..463J. doi:10.1098/rspa.1924.0082.
  6. ^ Lennard-Jones, J. E. (1929). "The electronic structure of some diatomic molecules". Transactions of the Faraday Society. 25: 668–686. Bibcode:1929FaTr...25..668L. doi:10.1039/TF9292500668.
  7. ^ Lennard-Jones, J. E. (1931). "Wave Functions of Many-Electron Atoms". Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 27 (3): 469–480. Bibcode:1931PCPS...27..469L. doi:10.1017/S0305004100010057. S2CID 123262522.
  8. ^ Lennard-Jones, J. E. (1934). "The electronic structure and the interaction of some simple radicals". Transactions of the Faraday Society. 30: 70–148. doi:10.1039/TF9343000070.
  9. ^ Lennard-Jones, J. (1949). "The Molecular Orbital Theory of Chemical Valency. I. The Determination of Molecular Orbitals". Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences. 198 (1052): 1–13. Bibcode:1949RSPSA.198....1L. doi:10.1098/rspa.1949.0083.
  10. ^ Hall, G. G.; Lennard-Jones, J. (1950). "The Molecular Orbital Theory of Chemical Valency. III. Properties of Molecular Orbitals". Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences. 202 (1069): 155. Bibcode:1950RSPSA.202..155H. doi:10.1098/rspa.1950.0091. S2CID 97300916.
  11. ^ Portraits of John Lennard-Jones at the National Portrait Gallery, London
  12. ^ ""The Lennard-Jones paper of 1929 and the foundations of Molecular Orbital Theory" by George G. Hall, Adv. Quant. Chem. 1991, 22, 1". www.quantum-chemistry-history.com.