Table of Contents

Erich Hückel’s Education and Scientific Awakening: The Path to Quantum Chemistry.- Erich Hückel’s Research Agenda During the 1930s: Underpinning Organic Chemistry with Quantum Theory.- The Controversy Between Erich Hückel and Linus Pauling over the Benzene Problem.- Linus Pauling’s Breakthrough to the Theory of Aromatic Compounds and Hückel’s Reaction.- Hückel’s Efforts to Disseminate His Theory and Its Reception.- Hückel’s Professional Career in National Socialist Germany.- The Postwar Years.- Summary and Concluding Remarks.

Reviews

From the reviews: "Andreas Karachalios produced a well researched and meticulously documented biography of Erich Huckel ... . It is readable and contains a considerable amount of theoretical chemistry that allows not only the evaluation of Huckel's oeuvre, but informs also about the early development of quantum chemistry in the 1920s and 1930s. It is warmly recommended to all theoretical and computational chemists and to all others who are interested in the history of chemistry during the first third of the twentieth century." (Istvan Hargittai, Structural Chemistry, Vol. 21, 2010) "This is an important and much needed book. I consider it a must buy for historians of quantum chemistry. Now what we need next is an English translation of Huckle's autobiography. Chemical Heritage Foundation, are you listening?" Dr. E. Thomas Strom, Dept of Chemistry and Biochemistry, university of Texas Arlington, Arlington, TX 76019-0065 With kind permission of Bulletin for the History of Chemistry, vol 35, No. 2 2010