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P.W. Atkins

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August 10, 1940 in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England, The United Kingdom

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Peter William Atkins is a British chemist and former Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Lincoln College. He is a prolific writer of popular chemistry textbooks, including Physical Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, and Molecular Quantum Mechanics. Atkins is also the author of a number of science books for the general public, including Atkins' Molecules and Galileo's Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science.

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Average rating: 3.60 · 644 ratings · 96 reviews · 184 distinct works

	The Periodic Kingdom: A Journey Into The Land Of The Chemical Elements 3.48 avg rating — 83 ratings — published 1995 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Galileo's Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science 3.76 avg rating — 58 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	Physical Chemistry by P.W. Atkins, Julio de Paula, Peter Atkins 3.40 avg rating — 72 ratings — published 1985 — 23 editions	My rating:
	Chem Principles 3e: The Quest for Insight by P.W. Atkins, Loretta Jones 3.71 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1999 — 12 editions	My rating:
	Morningstar 2.90 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1992 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Second Law: Coll.Pa 4.45 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1984 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Life Is Short And So Is This Book 3.00 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	Creation Revisited: The Origin of Space, Time and the Universe 3.38 avg rating — 8 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Atoms, Electrons, and Change: A Scientific American Library Book 3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1991	My rating:
	Moontown 3.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2008	My rating:

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“When asked by Rod Liddle in the documentary The Trouble with Atheism "Give me your views on the existence, or otherwise, of God",Peter Atkins replied "Well it's fairly straightforward: there isn't one. And there's no evidence for one, no reason to believe that there is one, and so I don't believe that there is one. And I think that it is rather foolish that people do think that there is one.”
― P.W. Atkins

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