Some aspects on the development of the natural sciences and their importance for modern society and for our global environment
✍ Scribed by Per-Olov Löwdin
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 167 KB
- Volume
- 64
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0020-7608
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✦ Synopsis
A brief review is given of the development of modern sciences from the early 1800s to the establishment of modern quantum theory around 1925 leading to modern theoretical chemical physics. Special attention is given to the interplay between mathematics, physics, and chemistry and to show how the development in one science strongly influences the development in the other sciences. A special section is devoted to the interplay between basic and applied research and to the interesting phenomenon that one may very likely get more and better technological applications if basic research is left to flourish on its own. In this connection, the relation between teaching and basic research is also discussed. Finally, the importance of modern science for the protection of our global environment is briefly reviewed.