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Annual Review of Physical Chemistry

Volume 65, 2014

A Journey Through Chemical Dynamics

Abstract

The charge with the invitation to write this autobiographical article was to describe what led me to a career in science and to choose the specific topics and scientific directions I have pursued. This is thus a very personal story and by no means a scientific review of the work that is mentioned. As will be clear, this journey was not an orderly, well-thought-out plan, but just “happened,” one step after the other.

Keyword(s): Autobiography, electronically nonadiabatic dynamics, quantum reaction rate theory, semiclassical theory, semiclassical transition state theory
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A Journey Through Chemical Dynamics
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