Atomic theory : an introduction to wave mechanics

Louis Harris, Arthur L. Loeb, Peter B. Kahn

A.L. Stanford, J.M. Tanner

Herbert Stanley Allen

Derrick S. F. Crothers

We present an inaugural lecture, originally given by the author on 2 June 1987 at the Queen's University of Belfast, but in an edited version, on the topic Sixty years of quantum wave mechanics. A short historical survey is given as an introduction to some of the author's own personal research in the theory of atomic collisions, notably heavy-particle collisions and semiclassical methods.