Subject: Re: CCL:HYBRIDIZATION NOT "REAL";V. FOCK

From: Andrey Kalinichev <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 20:22:58 -0500

Here is some info about Fock:

http://hcc.keldysh.ru/~fock/

Hope this helps.

Andrey Kalinichev

elewars wrote:
> 
> 2000 Sun Sept 10
> 
> Hello,
> 
> We know that hybridization is a mathematical procedure and not an actual
> physical process; for example, an s and a p orbital
> (orbital=one-electron function) are vectors in Hilbert space, which can
> be mathematically combined to give two new orbitals (two sp orbitals).
> 
> QUESTIONS:
> 
> (1) Did Linus Pauling _invent_ hybridization? He certainly popularized
> it.
> 
> (2) Did Pauling accept that hybridization is "only" a mathematical
> procedure?
> 
> -----
> By the way, does anyone know where Vladimer Fock got his Ph.D., and
> where and when he died? I think he worked at the University of St.
> Petersburg/Leningrad.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> E. Lewars
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