Physical instruments have brought to chemistry a transition and a renaissance. Chemical change can be studied in picoseconds, molecular beam technology, coupled to lasers, can probe quantum states, micelles, colloids and membranes can be analyzed as truly dynamic chemical systems. The tools of the physicist have given the chemist a far better interdisciplinary understanding of nature than ever before.
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Moscow University Chemistry Bulletin30(2), 79 (1975) (translation, Allerton Press, New York).
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This contribution is based on the author's AAAS Lecture given in Washington on 13 February1978, Because of its exceptional interest, it is being published simultaneously in Technology Review, Cambridge, USAand Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, London, UK.
