Jose J. C. Teixeira Dias is retired Professor of Physical Chemistry from the University of Aveiro, Portugal. He obtained his PhD from the University of Sussex, Brighton, UK, in 1970 under the supervision of Professor John Murrell and Professor Harold Kroto. From 1980 to 1995 he was Professor of Chemistry at the University of Coimbra before moving to the University ... Read moreof Aveiro. In 1991 Prof. Dias became Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry with the Chartered Chemist (CChem) distinction. Prof. Dias has authored four university student textbooks in Portuguese on Quantum Chemistry, Molecular Spectroscopy, Pascal Programming and Applications, and an Introduction to Physical Chemistry. With this current textbook on Molecular Physical Chemistry he is addressing an international readership, providing a great resource for an active learning environment. Show Less