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The Coupling of Angular Momentum Vectors in Molecules

J. H. Van Vleck^*

J. H. Van Vleck^*

Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

^*In contributing to this memorial number ofReviews of Modern Physics dedicated to John Torrence Tate, I am particularly pleased to write on the subject of the coupling of angular momentum vectors in molecules, for this is a topic on which I was collaborating with E. L. Hill at Minnesota in 1926-27, during Professor Tate's first years at Editor-in-Chief. Although he was not a specialist in our particular field, his interest in our work, and his encouragement of it, were a real assistance. I fondly recall the impromptu office party which J. W. Buchta, then a young instructor, arranged to celebrate Tate's inaugural role as Editor-in-Chief. The subsequent years have certainly more than justified our satisfaction that he accepted this position.

Rev. Mod. Phys. 23, 213 – Published 1 July, 1951

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/RevModPhys.23.213

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