Dear CCL'ers, I am completely new to this list and primarily a philosopher of chemistry not a practitioner in computational chemistry. I understand from a colleague in France that the question of "seeing orbitals" has recently been discussed. I would like to enclose a pre-print of an article which will appear in the November issue of Journal of Chemical Education. Comments are invited. When the article making the claim for observed orbitals first appeared in Nature magazine and various other places I sent letters to all the editors concerned. They all resuded to publish any dissenting words. I have since heard that several other people's letters to Nature in particular were also turned down for no apparent reason. May I also take this opportunity to invite list members to take a look at the web pages of Foundations of Chemistry and consider submitting an article of suitable philosophical, historical or pedagogical emphasis. regards,
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Eric Scerri PhD, Visiting Professor, Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907 USA tel: 765 496 1992 Editor: Foundations of Chemistry, An Interdisciplinary journal for Philosophical, Historical and Educational Aspects of Chemistry. http://www.wkap.nl/journals/foch