Atkins' Physical Chemistry

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The Periodic Kingdom: A journey into the land of the chemical elements. BasicBooks. 1995. ISBN 0-465-07266-6. Tudge, Colin (8 December 2007). "The art of the soluble". The Guardian. London . Retrieved 22 May 2010. Atkins, Peter W.; Beran, J. A. (1992). General Chemistry (2nded.). New York: Scientific American Books. ISBN 978-0716724964.

Atkins is a well-known atheist. [4] He has written and spoken on issues of humanism, atheism, and conflicts between science and religion. According to Atkins, whereas religion scorns the power of human comprehension, science respects it. [5] The Laws of Thermodynamics: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press. 2010. ISBN 978-0-19-957219-9.

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On Being: A Scientist's Exploration of the Great Questions of Existence. Oxford University Press. 2011. ISBN 978-0-19-960336-7. He was a member of the Council of the Royal Institution and the Royal Society of Chemistry. He was the founding chairman of IUPAC Committee on Chemistry Education, and is a trustee of a variety of charities. In 2007, Atkins's position on religion was described by Colin Tudge in an article in The Guardian as being non-scientific. In the same article, Atkins was also described as being "more hardline than Richard Dawkins", and of deliberately choosing to ignore Peter Medawar's famous adage that "Science is the art of the soluble". [15] Personal life [ edit ] Atkins, Peter W.; Jones, Loretta (2023). Chemical Principles: The Quest for Insight (8thed.). New York: Macmillan Publishers. ISBN 978-1319437930.Atkins has lectured in quantum mechanics, quantum chemistry, and thermodynamics courses (up to graduate level) at the University of Oxford. He is a patron of the Oxford University Scientific Society. Atkins, Peter W. (1997). The Periodic Kingdom: A Journey into the Land of the Chemical Elements. New York: Basic Books. ISBN 978-0465072668. Atkins, Peter W.; Shriver, D. F. (2010). Inorganic Chemistry (5thed.). W. H. Freeman. ISBN 978-1-4292-1820-7.