With its flexible organization, Physical Chemistry for the Life Sciences is the perfect fit for today's life science students, allowing the instructors to present material from either a biochemistry or physical chemistry perspective, depending on the goals of their course.
Peter William Atkins is an English chemist and a Fellow of Lincoln College at the University of Oxford. He retired in 2007. 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 popular science books, including Atkins' Molecules, Galileo's Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science and On Being.
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