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Kostas Gavroglu and Ana Simões: Neither physics nor chemistry. A history of quantum chemistry

The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA & London, 2012, 351 pp. [ISBN-10: 0262016184; ISBN-13: 9780262016186]

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  2. Free University of Brussels, Brussels, Belgium

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Llored, JP. Kostas Gavroglu and Ana Simões: Neither physics nor chemistry. A history of quantum chemistry. Found Chem 18, 81–84 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10698-014-9211-y

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