William James Orville-Thomas
William James Orville-Thomas was a British physical chemist. He was born on 13 October 1921 at Llanelli, near Swansea. In 1966, he was appointed to the Chair of Physical Chemistry at the University of Salford. Orville-Thomas is author of several books on infrared spectroscopy, such as "The Structure of Small Molecules" [1] (1966) and "Internal Rotation in Molecules"[2] (1974) In 1967 he was the founding editor of the Journal of Molecular Structure and in 1985 (with I. G. Csizmadia) of the Journal of Molecular Structure: THEOCHEM.
William James Orville-Thomas served as president of the international committee of the European Congress on Molecular Spectroscopy (EUCMOS) until 1994.
He died in November 2009.
References
- Orville-Thomas, William James (1966). Structure of Small Molecules. Elsevier Science Ltd. ISBN 978-0444407627.
- Orville-Thomas, William James (1974). Internal Rotation in Molecules. John Wiley & Sons Ltd. ISBN 978-0471657071.
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