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  Peter Atkins - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Peter William Atkins (born 1940) is a Fellow and professor of chemistry at Lincoln College in the University of Oxford.
Atkins, who is an atheist, has also written and spoken on issues of humanism, atheism, and what he sees as the incompatibility between science and religion.
Atkins is known to lecture quantum mechanics and quantum chemistry courses (up to graduate level) at the University of Oxford.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peter_Atkins   (267 words)

  
 Watercolour Demonstrations by Peter Atkins
Peter's chosen subject was a timbered house at Dixter together with its garden.
Peter left a border of a couple of inches round the drawing and the yellow ochre rectangle to give a white frame to the finished painting.
Peter explained that he was going to use Miameri watercolours with a limited palette of just three colours - lemon yellow, phthalo blue and magenta.
website.lineone.net /~samdauncey/fcsa/History/AtkinsP.htm   (848 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Peter Atkins Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Peter William Atkins is a Fellow and professor of chemistry at Lincoln College in the University of Oxford.
Peter Atkins studied chemistry at the University of Leicester, obtaining a bachelor's degree in chemistry and in 1964 a Ph.D for research into electron-spin resonance.
Atkins then taught physical chemistry at UCLA and later at Lincoln College, Oxford, where he is the SmithKline Beecham Fellow in inorganic chemistry.
www.ipedia.com /peter_atkins.html   (249 words)

  
 JCE 2004 (81) 1423 [Oct] Galileo's Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science (Peter Atkins)
Peter Atkins, the man with a chemistry textbook for every course, ranges well beyond his usual genre to explore some of the great scientific ideas of mankind.
Atkins finesses the interesting phenomenon of zero-point energy in quantized systems by showing the quantized levels with the continuous classical ones, but not pointing out that there is not an allowed level at zero energy.
Atkins seems to have intended this very ambitious project for the curious layman, but I judge that it will be most appreciated by us—teachers of science.
jchemed.chem.wisc.edu /Journal/Issues/2004/Oct/abs1423_1.html   (789 words)

  
 Dragon*Con Biography: [Peter Atkins]
Novelist and screenwriter Peter Atkins was born in Liverpool, England.
Atkins is also the author of two novels -- Morningstar and Big Thunder -- and the collection Wishmaster and Other Stories.
Peter Atkins lives in Los Angeles, where he gigs with his band Invisible Cinema.
www.dragoncon.org /people/atkinsp.html   (262 words)

  
 Amazon.fr : Galileo's Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science: Livres: Peter Atkins   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Peter Atkins is very well qualified to write with authority about such a range of topics as he is Professor of Chemistry in the University of Oxford.
Chemistry professor Atkins examines the epochal ideas of science, including evolution, the role of DNA in heredity, entropy, the atomic structure of matter, symmetry, wave-particle duality, the expansion of the universe and the curvature of spacetime.
Atkins presents this progress as a search for evermore fundamental abstractions: DNA emerges as the fleeting physical instantiation of immortal information; thermodynamics is a universal tendency to disorder; and much of physics itself a logical corollary of pure geometry.
www.amazon.fr /exec/obidos/ASIN/0198609418   (777 words)

  
 E-Bulletin: University of Leicester
Peter Atkins is a Leicester graduate who came here in 1958 to read chemistry.
Professor Atkins is Chairman of the Committee on Chemistry Education of IUPAC - the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry.
Honorary graduate Professor Atkins is a graduate of the University of Leicester and a member of the University's Court.
www.le.ac.uk /ua/pr/ebulletin/people/orationforprofpeteratkins.html   (987 words)

  
 Atkins' Molecules:0521823978:Peter Atkins:eCampus.com
Atkins gives a non-technical account of a range of aspects of the world around us, revealing unexpected connections and insight into how it can be understood in terms of the atoms and molecules from which it is built.
Peter Atkins is SmithKline Beecham Fellow and Tutor in Physical Chemistry at Oxford University.
Atkins' research includes the fields of theoretical chemistry, particularly magnetic resonance and the electromagnetic properties of molecules.
www.ecampus.com /bk_detail.asp?isbn=0521823978   (178 words)

  
 DarkEcho/HorrorOnline: Peter Atkins (2000)
Peter Atkins, despite more than a decade's acclimation to Southern California, still retains a Liverpudlian accent thick enough to make one instantly wax nostalgically about the Beatles.
Atkins and Barker proceeded to work together in avant-garde theatre and independent film for the next five or six years, along with a small group of like-minded friends (including Doug Bradley, later to become famous as Pinhead).
Atkins tends to write supernatural horror in an age where many writers feel that the fantastic is no longer as frightening as reality.
www.darkecho.com /darkecho/horroronline/atkins.html   (1902 words)

  
 Physical Chemistry. By Peter Atkins
Peter Atkins’ textbook has now reached its sixth edition—a rare, but certainly not unheard-of degree of maturity in chemistry publishing—so there has been plenty of opportunity to weed out errors since the book first made an appearance in 1978.
More applied areas, such as colloids and fuel cells make an appearance, but one senses that these form a kind of side show, brought in primarily to illustrate the principles of the subject; throughout, the emphasis is on the core material of physical chemistry.
For example, Atkins takes the conventional approach to explain why a change in pressure may affect the position of equilibrium in a gas phase reaction, using Le Chatelier’s principle.
chemeducator.org /bibs/0006004/640262hc.htm   (1555 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Morningstar: Books: Peter Atkins   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
There are simply too many scenes in the book which go nowhere and Atkins shies away from dealing directly with the crux of the story -is Frost actually killing vampires or is he merely a deluded psychotic.The violence is frequent and graphic,but these scenes are interspersed with ones of genuine lyricism and power.
Peter Atkins, the author of such favorite popular horror features as Hellraiser II, III, and The Wishmaster, demonstrates here why he was chosen to co-write with undisputed modern horror master Clive Barker.
Peter Atkins skillfully weaves a tale of grisly facination and edge of your seat suspense.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1588810003?v=glance   (1695 words)

  
 Skadden > Peter A Atkins
Atkins also counsels clients on a broad range of corporate, securities and business-related matters, including directors’ duties and responsibilities and other aspects of corporate governance, disclosure issues, corporate compliance matters and internal investigations and financing transactions.
Atkins has had substantial transactional involvement are the airline, defense and aerospace, energy, financial institutions, forest products, health care, information technology, insurance, media and telecommunications, retail and utilities industries.
Atkins is involved in the firm’s senior management, including serving as a member of the firm’s Policy Committee and as chairman of its Client Committee.
www.skadden.com /index.cfm?contentID=45&bioID=6   (711 words)

  
 ::infrapress::
Atkins has also authored the story collection Wishmaster and two plays.
Peter Atkins is married and lives in Los Angeles where he gigs (far too rarely) with his new band Invisible Cinema.
Reversing his employee's action with the light switches, he once again flooded the room with redness and then placed his mouth close to a small intercom that was adjacent to the switches.
www.writers.com /publishing/infrapress/atkins.html   (1517 words)

  
 02/14/98: Re: Peter Atkins, nice guy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
I blame >that movie on Peter Atkins, the same moron who wrote all >the other sequels to "Hellraiser" and decided to shift the >story to Pinhead.
Atkins wrote a wonderful script about a brothel and some Cenobites -- very cool and very different from "Hell on Earth".
Atkins did his job, and gave em what they demanded.
www.mrcranky.com /movies/hellraiserblood/92/6.html   (241 words)

  
 Galileo's Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science Book by Peter Atkins at Total-Entrepreneur.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
P.W.(Peter) Atkins is the author of the excellent textbook "Physical Chemistry", "Molecules", a general overview of nature's chemicals from the Scientific American Library, and the imaginative "Periodic Kingdom".
Atkins has chosen 10 simple concepts of great import that manifest into a giant tree of application.
The 'Galileo's Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science Book by Peter Atkins' and all other items from Amazon.com, are offered on the understanding that prices and availability may change at any time and are subject to Amazon.com's Conditions of use and sale.
www.total-entrepreneur.com /Amazon_Pages/_Galileo%2560s+Finger%255F+The+Ten+Great+Ideas+of+Science_0198606648_z.asp   (1179 words)

  
 'There Is No God': An Interview with Peter Atkins - Interview With Peter Atkins
Peter Atkins, the SmithKline Beecham Fellow and Tutor in Physical Chemisty at Oxford University, was born in 1940.
His research was on theoretical aspects of magnetic resonance, the effect of magnetic fields on chemical reactions, and the electromagnetic properties of molecules.
As time went by, Atkins increasingly turned to writing, in part to encourage young minds to think for themselves and fall in love with science.
www.worldandi.com /specialreport/2001/May/Sa21511.htm   (286 words)

  
 Leadership U. Events: Craig-Atkins Debate
Atkins is currently Professor of Physical Chemistry at Lincoln College at Oxford, England.
His textbook of physical chemistry is the predominant text used in the U.S. and U.K. Dr. Atkins is also an ardent atheist.
He was recently quoted in the London Daily Telegraph as saying, "It is not possible to be intellectually honest and believe in gods.
www.leaderu.com /offices/billcraig/docs/craig-atkins2.html   (204 words)

  
 Lincoln College - Oxford University - Professor Peter Atkins
Lincoln College - Oxford University - Professor Peter Atkins
Professor Peter Atkins is SmithKline Beecham Fellow and Tutor in Physical Chemisty.
He now spends virtually all his time writing books, which range from college textbooks (such as General Chemistry; Physical Chemistry; Inorganic Chemistry; Molecular Quantum Mechanics; Quanta; Concepts of Physical Chemistry; etc) to books on science (particularly chemistry) for general audiences (such as Molecules; The Second Law; Atoms, Electrons, and Change; The Periodic Kingdom).
www.lincoln.ox.ac.uk /fellows/atkins   (141 words)

  
 Peter Atkins Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
Peter Atkins welcomes his new co-author, Julio de Paula, to the new edition of this authoritative text, which is now more modern, pedagogically richer, and offers greater flexibility.
Here is a thought-provoking introduction to such pivotal ideas as evolution by natural selection, the structure of DNA and its role in heredity, the conservation of energy, entropy, and more.
The current edition of Chemistry: Molecules, Matter, and Change is the most effective yet at helping students develop their visualization and problem-solving skills, and showing the practical impact of chemical understanding on the way we live.
www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Peter_Atkins   (879 words)

  
 SSRN-Corporate Law in the Twenty-First Century: The Practitioners' Prognosis by Arthur Fleischer, Peter Atkins
The first member I'd like you to meet, on my immediate left, is Peter Atkins who is an M&A partner at Skadden, Arps in New York.
Peter and Art are both very experienced practitioners in this field and appropriate presenters for us on this topic today of the practitioner's prognosis.
Fleischer, Arthur and Atkins, Peter A., "Corporate Law in the Twenty-First Century: The Practitioners' Prognosis".
papers.ssrn.com /sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=263814   (641 words)

  
 eBay - peter atkins, Textbooks, Education, Fiction Books items on eBay.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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 Peter E. Atkins   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Peter E. Atkins was born May 8, 1962 in Forest, Mississippi.
He is survived by his wife Shannon, stepchildren: Chance, Stuart, and Laney, his parents Dale and Yvonne Atkins, his brother Paul of Coeurd’Alene, two sisters, Shauna Weber, and Robin McKeever, many nieces and nephews, and by his grandmother Velma Lazotte.
If desired, memorials may be sent in care of the family at: HC 1 Box 386-G, Naples, Idaho 83847.
www.kvpress.com /obituaries/2005/0121atkinsprn.htm   (305 words)

  
 Oxford University Press: Galileo's Finger: Peter Atkins   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In this brilliant account of the central ideas of contemporary science, Peter Atkins celebrates the effectiveness of Galileo's symbolic finger for revealing the nature of our universe, our world, and ourselves.
It is high time it happened, and Peter Atkins would be my candidate.
Peter Atkins is Professor of Chemistry and Fellow of Lincoln College at Oxford University.
www.us.oup.com /us/catalog/general/subject/Physics/?view=usa&ci=0198606648   (521 words)

  
 Peter Atkins   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Peter Atkins was educated at the University of Leicester, where he did his Ph.D., and was a Harkness Fellow of the Commonwealth Fund at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Awards include the Meldola Medal of the Royal Society of Chemistry, honorary doctorates from Utrecht University and Leicester University, and the Nyholm Lectureship of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Professor Atkins’ research interests were theoretical chemistry and quantum mechanics.
www.veniceconference2005.org /speakers/atkins_p.htm   (228 words)

  
 Peter William Atkins - Celebrity Atheist List   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In the preface to The Creation, Atkins writes "My aim is to argue that the universe can come into existence without intervention, and that there is no need to invoke the idea of a Supreme Being in one of its numerous manifestations."
And it is not possible to believe in gods and be a true scientist, a professor said yesterday in a debate between science and religion at the annual festival of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.
While apologising for being "forthright", Peter Atkins, professor of chemistry at Oxford University, said that religious belief was "outmoded and ridiculous".
www.celebatheists.com /index.php?title=Peter_William_Atkins   (1050 words)

  
 Atkins - Sir Peter Williams   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Sir Peter Williams was appointed a Non-Executive Director in May 2004.
Sir Peter was Master of St. Catherine's College, Oxford, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the National Museum of Science & Industry, President of the Institute of Physics, President of the British Association for the Advancement of Science and President of the Association for Science Education.
He Chairman of the Remuneration Committee and a member of the Audit and Nomination Committees.
www.atkinsglobal.com /aboutus/keypeople/sirpeterwilliams   (169 words)

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