Peter Atkins

Peter Atkins
Date personale
Născut	10 august 1940 (84 de ani) Amersham, Anglia, Regatul Unit
Căsătorit cu	Susan Greenfield[*]​ (1991–2005)
Număr de copii	1
Cetățenie	Regatul Unit
Religie	ateism
Ocupație	chimist autor de non-ficțiune[*]​ cadru didactic universitar[*]​ scriitor
Limbi vorbite	limba engleză
Activitate
Domiciliu	Oxford
Alma mater	Universitatea din Leicester Dr Challoner's Grammar School[*][[Dr Challoner's Grammar School (grammar school for boys in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England)|​]]
Organizație	Universitatea Oxford University of California, Los Angeles
Premii	Meldola Medal and Prize[*][[Meldola Medal and Prize (award granted by the Royal Society of Chemistry)|​]] (1969) Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry[*][[Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (Fellowship awarded by the Royal Society of Chemistry)|​]] James T. Grady-James H. Stack Award for Interpreting Chemistry[*][[James T. Grady-James H. Stack Award for Interpreting Chemistry (American award for science communication)|​]] (2016) Nyholm Prize for Education[*][[Nyholm Prize for Education (award granted by the Royal Society of Chemistry)|​]] (1998)

Peter Atkins (n. 10 august 1940, Amersham, Anglia, Regatul Unit) este un chimist britanic, autor al unei serii de tratate de chimie fizică și anorganică, și al unor cărți despre istoria ideilor științifice.

Opere

De interes pentru publicul larg

• The Creation. W.H.Freeman & Co Ltd. 1981. ISBN 0-7167-1350-0. 
• The Second Law Scientific American Books, an imprint of W. H. Freeman and Company. 1984 ISBN 0-7167-5004-X
• Creation revisited. W.H.Freeman & Co Ltd. 1993. ISBN 0-7167-4500-3. 
• Second Law: Energy, Chaos, and Form. W.H.Freeman & Co Ltd. 1994. ISBN 0-7167-5005-8. 
• The Periodic Kingdom: A journey into the land of the chemical elements. BasicBooks. 1995. ISBN 0-46-507266-6. 
• Atkins' Molecules. Cambridge University Press. 2003. ISBN 0-521-53536-0. 
• Galileo's Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science. Oxford University Press. 2003. ISBN 0-19-860941-8. 
• Four Laws That Drive the Universe. Oxford University Press. 2007. ISBN 0-19-923236-9. 
• On Being: A scientist's exploration of the great questions of existence. Oxford University Press. 2011. ISBN 0-19-960336-7. 
• Reactions: The private life of atoms. Oxford University Press. 2011. ISBN 0-19-969512-1. 

Tratate universitare

• Atkins, Peter W.; Symons, M. C. R. (1967). The Structure of Inorganic Radicals. Amsterdam, New York: Elsevier Pub. Co. OCLC 543225. 
• Atkins, Peter W. (1991). Quanta: A Handbook of Concepts (ed. 2nd). New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-198-55573-5. 
• Atkins, Peter W. (1995). The Periodic Kingdom: A Journey Into the Land of the Chemical Elements. New York: BasicBooks. ISBN 978-0-788-15518-5. 
• Atkins, Peter W.; Friedman, Ronald (2005). Molecular Quantum Mechanics (ed. 4th). Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-927498-3. 
• Atkins, Peter W. (2009). Quanta, Matter, and Change: A molecular approach to physical chemistry. New York: W. H. Freeman. ISBN 978-0-7167-6117-4. 
• Atkins, Peter W.; Shriver, D. F. (2010). Inorganic Chemistry (ed. 5th). W. H. Freeman. ISBN 978-1-4292-1820-7. 
• Atkins, Peter W.; Jones, Loretta (2010). Chemical Principles: The Quest for Insight (ed. 5th). New York: W. H. Freeman. ISBN 978-1-4292-1955-6. 
• Atkins, Peter W. (2010). Physical Chemistry (ed. 9th). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-954337-3. 
• Atkins, Peter W. (2011). Physical Chemistry for the Life Sciences (ed. 2nd). W.H. Freeman & Company. ISBN 978-1-4292-3114-5. 

Legături externe

• The Joy of Science, the Existence of God, and Galileo's Finger The Science Network interview with Peter Atkins
• Transcript of debate with theist William Lane Craig Arhivat în 15 iunie 2006, la Wayback Machine.
• Articles by Peter Atkins — Infidels website
• Video of March 2007 debate with Alister McGrath Arhivat în 4 septembrie 2011, la Wayback Machine.
• Lucrări de sau despre Peter Atkins în biblioteci (catalog WorldCat)
• Debate with Dr Peter McDonald about science vs. poetry Arhivat în 29 septembrie 2012, la Wayback Machine.
• Interview (with bibliography) on The Emergence of Understanding