Kostas Gavroglu

thumb|Kostas Gavroglu Kostas Gavroglu (born 1947) is a Greek university professor and politician. Quotes The mathematization of chemistry is always a very interesting topic, for it involves a number of issues that chemists had serious difficulties to come to terms with. Especially during the second half of the 19th century, the violent invasion of mathematics into chemistry gave rise to intense disagreements among chemists and many thought that mathematization undermined the very character of chemistry as a laboratory science.The developments in quantum chemistry after the 1980s have been phenomenal, and this happened because of the developments in computer technology together with the involvement of some chemists in devising a number of software programs that made possible complicated calculations. The crucial step was when the refinement of these calculational techniques became so reliable that chemists started talking of being able to do ab initio calculations. That meant that once the Hamiltonian in the Schrodinger equation was set-up, then it was possible to derive results which agreed remarkable well with experimental measurements. And in a short while, these calculations gained a legitimacy over experiments. The results of calculations replaced the experiments. External links Category:1947 births Category:Living people