《弗里茨·伦敦—科学传记》

作者：科斯塔斯·罗格鲁 著；刘兵，柯志阳，李正伟 译　出版社：

江西教育出版社
ISBN：9787539238555 / 7539238550
出版时间：2002-10-1　
 

    清华大学刘兵教授在《自然辩证法通讯》2004年第一期发表了“低温领域中的理论家--弗里茨·伦敦的生平与科学工作”一文。

     程民治在《物理通报》2007年第6期发表了《F·伦敦:和"能量子"同年降生的低温物理学家》。

    他的简介如下http://chemistry.bd.psu.edu/jircitano/London.html：

(b. March 7, 1900, Breslau, Ger. [now Wroclaw, Pol.]--d. March 30,1954, Durham, N.C., U.S.), German-American physicist who, with Walter Heitler, devised (1927) the first quantum mechanical treatment of the hydrogen molecule.

London was educated at the universities of Bonn, Frankfurt, Göttingen, Munich (Ph.D., 1921), and Paris. He was a Rockefeller research fellow at Zürich and Rome and a lecturer at the University of Berlin. From 1933 to 1936 he was a research fellow at the University of Oxford and then went to the University of Paris as master and director of research.

In 1939 he immigrated to the United States to become professor of theoretical chemistry at Duke University, Durham, N.C., and from 1953 he was James B. Duke professor of chemical physics there. He became a U.S. citizen in 1945. His publications include two volumes on Superfluids (1950, 1954).

London's theory of the chemical binding of homopolar molecules marked the beginning of modern quantum mechanical treatment of the hydrogen molecule and is considered one of the most important advances in modern chemistry. With his brother, Heinz London, he developed (1935) the phenomenological theory of superconductivity, providing a new foundation for the understanding of molecular forces and clarifying the connection between pure quantum phenomena and many of the most striking facts of chemistry.