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

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