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William James Orville-Thomas

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William James Orville-Thomas (13 October 1921 – 23 November 2009)[1] was a British physical chemist. He was born at Llanelli, near Swansea. In 1966, he was appointed to the Chair of Physical Chemistry at the University of Salford. Orville-Thomas is author of several books on infrared spectroscopy, such as "The Structure of Small Molecules" [2] (1966) and "Internal Rotation in Molecules"[3] (1974). In 1967 he was the founding editor of the Journal of Molecular Structure and in 1985 (with I. G. Csizmadia) of the Journal of Molecular Structure: THEOCHEM.

Orville-Thomas served as president of the international committee of the European Congress on Molecular Spectroscopy (EUCMOS) until 1994.

He died in November 2009.

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  1. ^ "William James Orville-Thomas (13 October 1921-23 November 2009)". Journal of Molecular Structure. 963 (2): 99. 2010. Bibcode:2010JMoSt.963...99.. doi:10.1016/j.molstruc.2009.12.032. Retrieved 12 December 2020.
  2. ^ Orville-Thomas, William James (1966). Structure of Small Molecules. Elsevier Science Ltd. ISBN 978-0444407627.
  3. ^ Orville-Thomas, William James (1974). Internal Rotation in Molecules. John Wiley & Sons Ltd. ISBN 978-0471657071.