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From fifty years ago, the birth of modern liquid-state science

Soft Condensed Matter 2017-08-02 v1

Abstract

The story told in this autobiographical perspective begins fifty years ago at the 1967 Gordon Research Conference on the Physics and Chemistry of Liquids. It traces developments in liquid-state science from that time, including contributions from the author, and especially in the study of liquid water. It emphasizes the importance of fluctuations, and the challenges of far-from-equilibrium phenomena.

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@article{arxiv.1609.04837,
  title  = {From fifty years ago, the birth of modern liquid-state science},
  author = {David Chandler},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1609.04837},
  year   = {2017}
}

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Invited autobiographical piece prepared for the Annual Reviews of Physical Chemistry