Peter Atkins is a fellow of Lincoln College, University of Oxford and the author of about 70 books for students and a general audience. His texts are market leaders around the globe. A frequent lecturer in the United States and throughout the world, he has held visiting professorships in France, Israel, Japan, China, and New Zealand. He was the founding chairman of the Committee on Chemistry Education of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry and was a member of IUPAC’s Physical and Biophysical Chemistry Division. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.
Series
Books
Atoms, Electrons, and Change
1991
Conjuring the Universe
The Origins of the Laws of Nature
2018
Physical Chemistry
1978
The Second Law
1984
General Chemistry
1990
Chemical Principles
The Quest for Insight
1999
Elements of Physical Chemistry
1992
On Being
A Scientist's Exploration of the Great Questions of Existence
2011
Physical Chemistry
A Very Short Introduction
2014
Physical Chemistry for the Life Sciences
1993
Quanta, Matter and Change
2008
Reactions
The Private Life of Atoms
2011
Galileo's Finger
The Ten Great Ideas of Science
2003
Chemistry
A Very Short Introduction
2013
Molecular Quantum Mechanics
1970
Atkins' Molecules
1987
Creation Revisited
1981
The Periodic Kingdom
A Journey Into The Land Of The Chemical Elements
1995
Student's Solutions Manual to Accompany Atkins' Physical Chemistry, Eighth Edition
2009
The Laws of Thermodynamics
A Very Short Introduction
1990
Four Laws That Drive the Universe
2007
