Re: CCL:The "birth-year" of computational chemistry?

["Rzepa, Henry" <h.rzepa-0at0-ic.ac.uk>]

>.. The worlds first electronic, digital computer, ENIAC (Electronic
 Numeric Integrating Automatic Computer), was constructed at the University of
 Pennsylvania in 1945, this sets an early limit for the birth of Computational
 Chemistry.
 A rather US centric claim.  There was certainly a computer built by Turing well
 before  1945
 at Bletchley park, to decode the  German  Enigma ciphers which probably
 qualifies. Turing
 was also associated with Manchester  University, that I believe also has a prior
 claim  to
 ENIAC.  No doubt reference to the textbooks (mine are at home and  I write this
 from work)
 will clarify this issue.
 Apologies for being slightly off topic!
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