Peter   Atkins

Peter Atkins

Peter Atkins was born in 1940. Their most popular book is The Laws of Thermodynamics: A Very Short Introduction with 12 saves and an average rating of 4.33.

Author Bio

Peter William Atkins FRSC (born 10 August 1940) is an English chemist and a Fellow of Lincoln College at the University of Oxford. He retired in 2007. He is a prolific writer of popular chemistry textbooks, including Physical Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, and Molecular Quantum Mechanics. Atkins is also the author of a number of popular science books, including Atkins' Molecules, Galileo's Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science and On Being.