Molecular Structure and Dynamics: Legacy of Willis H. Flygare

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James M. Lisy, j-lisy@uiuc.edu, Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 600 S. Mathews Ave., Box 7-6, Urbana, IL 61801
This classic book by Bill Flygare combined, for the first time, all of the elements of modern physical chemistry. Created from his unique two semester course at the University of Illinois for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, Flygare introduced the important topics of time- and frequency-resolved spectroscopy, coherent excitation processes, scattering, and electronic structure calculations, from the perspective of an experimentalist. The synergy between experiment and theory, required for definitive analysis of the most challenging investigations in physical chemistry, is presented in examples from both spectroscopy and dynamics.