John Clarke Slater (December 22, 1900 - July 25, 1976) was a noted American physicist and theoretical chemist.
Slater studied at the University of Rochester, earning his B.S. in 1920. He went on to receive his Ph. D. in physics from Harvard University in 1923, then went on to study at Cambridge University and again at Harvard. In 1924, he collaborated with Niels Bohr and Hendrik Kramers on the BKS (Bohr, Kramers, Slater) theory which served as th...
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John Clarke Slater (December 22, 1900 - July 25, 1976) was a noted American physicist and theoretical chemist.
Slater studied at the University of Rochester, earning his B.S. in 1920. He went on to receive his Ph. D. in physics from Harvard University in 1923, then went on to study at Cambridge University and again at Harvard. In 1924, he collaborated with Niels Bohr and Hendrik Kramers on the BKS (Bohr, Kramers, Slater) theory which served as the impetus for Werner Heisenberg's full quantum theory. He served from 1930 to 1966 as a professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, being recruited by MIT President Karl T. Compton to be head of the department as the latter attempted to re-make MIT as a full-fledged research university. He then went to the University of Florida where he served from 1966 to 1976 as research professor in physics and chemistry. In 1929 he gave a convenient way of expressing antisymmetric wave functions for fermions in the form of...
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