Sent to CCL by: "Soumya Samineni" [soumya_samineni|*|rediffmail.com]
Dear all,
With the ever increasing computational power, there has been an
enormous growth in the theoretical/computational chemistry (
personally i feel the word "Theoretical Chemistry" has been
abused
by considering it as an alternative word for "Computational
chemsitry" by people practising computational chemistry). while
people doing computational chemistry are also growing like mushrooms
and the volume of pages occupied by it has also exploded, the
number of people doing the theoretical chemistry (analytical) is
dwindling with time.
Any ways: It would be nice to hear comments from the leading (and
novice) experts of computational and theoretical chemistry regarding
the general feeling of the experimental community (who consider
that they toil pretty hard physically for every bit of the sentence
they write .. ) that we are "Arm chair scientists", who like
to
quench our thirst for science sitting before a computer all through
the day and gulping loads of liquids !!
I hope a small debate would make things more clear.
regards
Soumya