User:Paul Wormer

I retired in 2005 from the Radboud University in Nijmegen (The Netherlands) as an Associate Professor in Theoretical Chemistry. Over the years I (co)authored about 150 research papers published in journals as "the Journal of Chemical Physics", "Molecular Physics", "Physical Review A", etc., see here for a fairly complete list. I got a (cum laude) MSc in Chemical Engineering, but after an internship at a Haber-Bosch plant I decided that Theoretical Chemistry was more my cup of tea. My (cum laude) Ph.D. thesis was on Group Theory and the Theory of Intermolecular Forces; both topics still hold my interest. Most of my working life was on the crossing of Chemistry, Molecular Physics, and Applied Mathematics. Several times I held an appointment as a Visiting Research Professor in Applied Mathematics at the University of Waterloo in Ontario. I was a Visiting Fellow of the Royal Society in Bristol and a Visiting Professor of Theoretical Chemistry in Warsaw.

From October 2006 until August 2007 I contributed to Wikipedia under the name P.wormer. After my relatively late arrival at WP I found that most basic science articles were already in existence, so I added mostly to the niche of more advanced, graduate level, science. After a probation period of nine months I got fed up with continuously defending my work against attacks by science illiterates and fled to Citizendium. On CZ I soon discovered that this encyclopedia was almost virginal and that the foundation in science still had to be laid. So, I will add as many basic science articles as I can to CZ.

I am not a native speaker of English and appreciate it very much when my grammar/spelling/wording is improved. I hate it, however, when content that I contributed is removed without good explanation (in the associated talk page or my personal talk page). So, please, if you feel it necessary to delete some of my work (and possibly replace it with something else), explain to me why you think so. I may even agree with you! In Wikipedia I was sometimes criticized as being too abstruse and I had to agree with that several times, after which I tried to do a better job. So, please let me know if you don't understand my writings; together we can make something nice.

On December 24, 2007 I prepared the following list of CZ articles of which I am the main (often the sole) author.

1. Amedeo Avogadro
2. Amsterdam
3. Angular momentum
4. Angular momentum coupling
5. Antisymmetrizer
6. Associated legendre function
7. Atom
8. Atomic electron configuration
9. Atomic mass
10. Atomic mass constant
11. Atomic orbital
12. Atomic weight
13. Augustin-Louis Cauchy
14. Avogadro's constant
15. Belgium
16. Born-Oppenheimer approximation
17. Carbon
18. Carbon dioxide
19. Classification of rigid rotors
20. Clebsch-Gordan coefficients
21. Copernicus
22. Dalton (unit)
23. Digital object identifier
24. Distribution (mathematics)
25. Eckart conditions
26. Electron
27. Electron configuration
28. Electron orbital
29. Elementary charge
30. Elements
31. Energy
32. Faraday's constant
33. Gaussian type orbitals
34. Gravitation
35. Holland
36. Hydrogen
37. Hydrogen-like atom
38. Ideal gas law
39. Intermolecular force
40. Iron
41. Jacobus Kapteyn
42. Johannes Diderik van der Waals
43. Johannes Kepler
44. Kilogram
45. Laplace expansion (potential)
46. Legendre polynomials
47. Liter
48. Lucasian chair
49. Methane
50. Molar gas constant
51. Mole (unit)
52. Molecular Hamiltonian
53. Molecular mass
54. Molecular orbital
55. Molecular weight
56. Moller-Plesset
57. Multipole expansion (interaction)
58. Multipole expansion of electric field
59. National Institute of Standards and Technology
60. Netherlands
61. Nicolaus Copernicus
62. Nitrogen
63. Orbital
64. Oxygen
65. Planck's constant
66. Ptolemy
67. Relative molecular mass
68. Rigid rotor
69. Rotterdam
70. Slater determinant
71. Slater orbital
72. Solid harmonics
73. Spherical harmonics
74. Stark effect
75. The Hague
76. Unified atomic mass unit
77. Van der Waals equation
78. Van der Waals forces
79. Van der Waals molecule
80. Van der Waals radius
81. Wigner D-matrix

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