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Peter Atkins

British chemist

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    86
    Born 1940
  • Known for
    Hellbound: Hellraiser II
    1988
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Updated 2026-06-13

Peter William Atkins is an English chemist and a Fellow of Lincoln College at the University of Oxford. He retired in 2007. He is a prolific writer of popular chemistry textbooks, including Physical Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, and Molecular Quantum Mechanics. Atkins is also the author of a number of popular science books, including Atkins' Molecules, Galileo's Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science and On Being.

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Source confidence65.0
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