Optical, Electric and Magnetic Properties of Molecules

This book celebrates the career and scientific accomplishments of Professor David Buckingham, who is due to retire from his Chair at Cambridge University in 1997.

Celebrates the career and scientific accomplishments of Professor David Buckingham, who is due to retire from his Chair at Cambridge University in 1997. This book serves as a reference source, both retrospective and prospective, for the field of chemical physics with which the name A D Buckingham is associated.

Section and chapter headings: Preface. Acknowledgements. List of contributors. Foreword (J.A. Pople, D.R. Herschbach, J.M. Thomas, A.H. Zewail). The Career of A.D. Buckingham (D.C. Clary, B.J. Orr). The Scientific Publications of A.D. Buckingham. The Electro-Optic Kerr Effect (Review by D.A. Dunmur). Field-Gradient Induced Birefringence: a Direct Route to Molecular Quadrupole Moments (Review by G.L.D. Ritchie). Rayleigh and Raman Scattering (Review by M.P. Bogaard). Forces on Nuclei (Review by A.J. Stone). Intermolecular Forces and Molecular Moments (Review by W. Klemperer). Van der Waals Molecules (Review by A.C. Legon). Solvent Effects in Vibrational Spectra (Review by C.G. Gray, C.G. Joslin). Towards Rotationally Resolved Photoelectron Spectroscopy (Review by C.A. de Lange). Nonlinear Optics (Review by J.F. Ward). Vibrational Optical Activity (Review by L.D. Barron). NMR Chemical Shifts: Theory and Experiment (Review by C.J. Jameson). Anisotropic NMR (Review by E.E. Burnell).