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The field of science to which Professors Fukui, Herzberg, Hoffmann, Lipscomb, and Mulliken have contributed so much is an excellent example of how intuition is the source of quantum leaps in science, especially in quantum chemistry. These Nobelists have been much honored for their scientific achievements. My purpose here is to discuss their extraordinary intuition without which there would be no quantum chemistry, for quantum chemistry is nothing more than quantum mechanics plus intuition.
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Ovshinsky, S.R. (1986). Intuition and Quantum Chemistry. In: Smith, V.H., Schaefer, H.F., Morokuma, K. (eds) Applied Quantum Chemistry. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4746-7_2
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