Dr. Felix Lindgren
🇸🇪 Sweden
“From orbitals to observables.”
About Lindgren
A Stockholm physical chemist who reviews quantum chemistry, computational chemistry, physical chemistry and spectroscopy at the level of the graduate textbook and the methods monograph. Felix cares whether the theory, the approximations and the computation are represented honestly.
Reviewing voice
Dry, methodical, technically demanding. Scrutinises the quantum and computational treatment, tests approximations and derivations, and rewards precision over accessibility.
Reviews by Lindgren
Molecular Quantum Mechanics
Peter Atkins & Ronald Friedman
A demanding, often lucid standard text on quantum chemistry, but one whose formal rigour is uneven and whose pedagogical habits can at times smuggle in more confidence than justification.
🇸🇪 Dr. Felix Lindgren
Introduction to Computational Chemistry
Frank Jensen
A solid, methodical survey of computational chemistry that earns its place on the shelf, though it too often explains the machinery without quite interrogating its limits.
🇸🇪 Dr. Felix LindgrenModern Quantum Chemistry
Attila Szabo & Neil S. Ostlund
Modern Quantum Chemistry
Attila Szabo & Neil S. Ostlund
A foundational text on electronic structure theory, written with unusual clarity but also with the assumptions and omissions of its era laid bare.
🇸🇪 Dr. Felix Lindgren
Periodic Tales
Hugh Aldersey-Williams
An intelligent and often diverting walk through the periodic table, but one that prefers the anecdotal flourish to the clean argument chemistry deserves.
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The Disappearing Spoon
Sam Kean
An engaging miscellany of chemical anecdotes, full of charming curiosities and real intellectual bait, though it is often more a cabinet of tricks than a sustained argument about the science itself.
🇸🇪 Dr. Felix Lindgren
Stuff Matters
Mark Miodownik
An engaging, material-minded tour of the ordinary substances that quietly shape modern life, though it sometimes prefers charm to rigour. Miodownik is at his best when he makes the familiar newly strange; he is weaker when the argument needs more discipline than anecdote.
🇸🇪 Dr. Felix Lindgren