Subject: Re: CCL:LCAO--HISTORY

From: "J. Sichel" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 09:49:59 -0300 (ADT)

On Wed, 17 Sep 1997, E. Lewars wrote:

> Hello,  Does anyone know who first used the LCAO method of approximating
> molecular orbitals, and in what year?  It must have been in 1926, 1927,
> or 1928.  I suspect that Lennard-Jones was not actually the first.

According to Levine's Quantum Chemistry (4th edn p.357):
  The [LCAO] trial function [for H2] was first used by Finkelstein and 
Horowitz in 1928. Unfortunately he does not give a journal reference.

John Sichel
Université de Moncton, NB, Canada