Who published more than 1,200 papers and books, of which about 850 dealt with scientific topics, and developed and named the CPK models that were the first widely used physical molecular models based on van der Waals radii ?
Van der Waals surface The van der Waals surface of a molecule is an abstract representation or model of that molecule, illustrating where, in very rough terms, a surface might reside for the molecule based on the hard cutoffs of van der Waals radii for individual atoms, and it represents a surface through which the molecule might be conceived as interacting with other molecules. Also referred to as a "van der Waals envelope," the van der Waals surface is named for Johannes Diderik van der Waals, a Dutch theoretical physicist and thermodynamicist who developed theory to provide a liquid-gas equation of state that accounted for the non-zero volume of atoms and molecules, and on their exhibiting an attractive force when they interacted (theoretical constructions that also bear his name). van der Waals surfaces are therefore a tool used in the abstract representations of molecules, whether accessed, as they were originally, via hand calculation, or via physical wood/plastic models, or now digitally, via computational chemistry software. Practically speaking, CPK models, developed by and named for Robert Corey, Linus Pauling, and Walter Koltun, were the first widely used physical molecular models based on van der Waals radii, and allowed broad pedagogical and research use of a model showing the van der Waals surfaces of molecules.
Chinese Physics Letters Chinese Physics Letters (abbreviation: "Chin. Phys. Lett.", or also "CPL") is a peer reviewed scientific journal in the fields of chemistry and physics and related interdisciplinary fields (e.g. biophysics). The journal was established in 1984, and is published by the Chinese Physical Society. It is published in English and is an open access journal.