Shelter Island Conference on Quantum Mechanics in Valence Theory, 1951

Shelter Island Conference on Quantum Mechanics in Valence Theory was held in 1951. It was sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences.

The Nobel laureate Robert S. Mulliken organized the meeting. The other participants were • Theodore H. Berlin,

• Bryce Crawford,

• Charles Coulson,

• Henry Eyring,

• Joseph O. Hirschfelder,

• George E. Kimball,

• Masao Kotani,

• John Lennard-Jones,

• Per-Olov Löwdin,

• Duncan A. MacInnes,

• Henry Margenau,

• Joseph Edward Mayer,

• William Moffitt,

• Robert Parr,

• Linus Pauling,

• Kenneth Pitzer,

• Clemens C. J. Roothaan,

• Klaus Ruedenberg,

• Harrison Shull,

• John C. Slater,

• Leslie E. Sutton,

• C. W. Ufford,

• John Hasbrouch Van Vleck,

• George W.Wheland,

• and Michael P. Barnett.

In 1981, J.C. Light wrote, in an issue of The Journal of Physical Chemistry, that it presented papers from a conference that was "merely the latest in a long sequence of ... conferences ... on theoretical chemistry spanning 3 decades ..." followed by a list that began with the Shelter Island conference. In 1996, Parr wrote "The fall of 1951 was an exciting time for quantum chemistry ... the Shelter Island Conference on Quantum-Mechanical Methods in Valence Theory ... was singularly important ... ".