From owner-chemistry@ccl.net Wed Dec 12 20:38:01 2007 From: "Miguel Gonzalez miguel.gonzalez^^ub.edu" To: CCL Subject: CCL: origin of ab initio Message-Id: <-35827-071212133426-10946-1g1LdBlo7hTT2MPtSdR8rA*server.ccl.net> X-Original-From: Miguel Gonzalez Content-type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_025B_01C83CF1.9B3473B0" Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 19:02:56 +0100 MIME-version: 1.0 Sent to CCL by: Miguel Gonzalez [miguel.gonzalez(!)ub.edu] This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_025B_01C83CF1.9B3473B0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable "Ab initio" is a Latin term. From what I know this means "from the = beginning" (solving from first principles, i.e., without approximations = (strongly differening from empirical or semiempirical approaches)). Best wishes, M. Gonzalez ----- Original Message -----=20 From: John McKelvey jmmckel=3D-=3Dgmail.com=20 To: Gonzalez, Miguel =20 Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 5:36 PM Subject: CCL: origin of ab initio Actually, Lou Allinger of Molecular Mechanics fame claims that "ab = initio"is a Latin term that means "very expensive."Cheers,John McKelvey On Dec 12, 2007 4:30 AM, Christoph Etzlstorfer christoph.etzlstorfer . = jku.at wrote: There is a story about that in Michael J.S. Dewars biography "A = semiempirical life", American Chemical Society, 1992, p. 129. Best regards Christoph Am 11.12.2007 um 03:13 schrieb Tommy Ohyun Kwon ohyun.kwon _ = chemistry.gatech.edu: Sent to CCL by: Tommy Ohyun Kwon [ohyun.kwon . = chemistry.gatech.edu] Dear CCLers; I would appreciate it if anyone could tell me who used the term of = "ab initio calculations" first. Thank you very much for your kind attention. Best wishes, Tommy -- Tommy Ohyun Kwon, Ph.D School of Chemistry and Biochemistry Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta Georgia, 30332 Email: ohyun.kwon]*[chemistry.gatech.edu the strange characters on the top line to the ,+, sign. You can = also E-mail to subscribers: CHEMISTRY,+,ccl.net or use:E-mail to administrators: CHEMISTRY-REQUEST,+,ccl.net or use =20 Subscribe/Unsubscribe:=20=20 Conferences: = http://server.ccl.net/chemistry/announcements/conferences/ Search Messages: http://www.ccl.net/htdig (login: ccl, Password: = search)=20=20 #################################################### www.etzlstorfer.com=20 *********************************************************** Dr. Christoph Etzlstorfer Phone: *43-732-2468-8750=20 Universitaet Linz Fax: *43-732-2468-8747 A-4040 Linz E-mail: christoph.etzlstorfer,+,jku.at Austria http://www.orc.uni-linz.ac.at #################################################### ------=_NextPart_000_025B_01C83CF1.9B3473B0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
 
"Ab initio" is a Latin term. From what = I=20 know this means "from the beginning" (solving from first=20 principles, i.e., without approximations (strongly differening = > from empirical or semiempirical approaches)).
 
Best wishes,
 
M. Gonzalez
 
 
 
 
----- Original Message -----
From:=20 John=20 McKelvey jmmckel=3D-=3Dgmail.com
Sent: Wednesday, December 12, = 2007 5:36=20 PM
Subject: CCL: origin of ab = initio

Actually, Lou Allinger of Molecular Mechanics fame =
claims that "ab initio"
is a Latin term that means "very =
expensive."

Cheers,

John McKelvey


On Dec 12, 2007 4:30 AM, Christoph = Etzlstorfer=20 christoph.etzlstorfer . jku.at <owner-chemistry]![ccl.net&g= t;=20 wrote:
There is a story about that in Michael J.S. Dewars biography "A = semiempirical life", American Chemical Society, 1992, p. 129.

Best regards

Christoph


Am 11.12.2007 um 03:13 schrieb Tommy Ohyun Kwon ohyun.kwon _ chemistry.gatech.edu:


Sent to CCL by: Tommy Ohyun Kwon = [ohyun.kwon . chemistry.gatech.edu]
Dear CCLers;
I would appreciate it if anyone could = tell me who=20 used the term of "ab initio
calculations" first.
Thank you very much for your kind=20 attention.

Best wishes,

Tommy


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School of Chemistry and = Biochemistry
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta Georgia, 30332
Email: ohyun.kwon]*[chemistry.gatech.edu



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