“Models of Reality” for Static, Nuclei and Atoms

About the Book

Inside this little book you can learn how physical, nuclear and atomic models were found that relate to the physics and chemistry of atoms based on their shape and intrinsic structures.  You can see how it all begins with an icosahedral carbon atom which explains its bond angles, hybridization, and can be used to build up and down to develop key elements related to Bohr’s ground state toms, valence, quantum mechanics, and ultimately the chemistry and physics of particle-formed nuclei and atoms.  The work is in its infancy and opportunity awaits those who will believe that complete knowledge of all the atoms in the periodic tables will be determined by nuclei and the location of electrons in the nucleus, in atomic orbitals around the nucleus or in molecular orbitals in compounds.  Here is an opportunity for the scientific community to proceed with great imagination and understanding in extending everyone’s knowledge as we would like to know it.

About the Author

J. Alden Erikson was born March 3, 1926 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin where he went to public school until he was drafted inthe Army in June of 1944. Six months later he was a tank mechanic in the 415^th Ordinance Evacuation Company and celebrated his 19^th birthday in London when 3 V-2''s fall on the city. After 18 months in Europe, the GI Bill enabled him to go to the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee for two years and the University Wisconsin at Madison for two years to get a BS. in Chemistry in 1950. A scholarship to MIT brought him his Ph.D. in Chemistry in 1953. He married in 1955 and time has flown ever since.After 35 years with PPG Industries, Inc., making resins and coatings vehicles, he retired in 1988 to make up for lost time..