Jan CA Boeyens

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Jan Christoffel Antonie Boeyens (born October 2, 1934 in Wesselsbron , Orange Free State ; † August 26, 2015 ) was a South African chemist .

Career

He did his PhD in Pretoria . From 1963 he worked in the National Physics Research Laboratory of South Africa, and in 1965 in Stanford . In 1981 he was appointed professor of chemistry at Witwatersrand University . Visiting professorships took him to the Free University of Berlin in 1994 and to Heidelberg in 1998 .

He was the author of numerous works on theoretical chemistry . In total, his list of publications includes more than 600 works. In 1995 he initiated the Indaba series of the International Union of Crystallography , which he organized up to Indaba 5 in August 2006.

After his retirement he wrote works in which he directed himself against the knowledge of quantum mechanics recognized by the scientific community . He does not defend models of atoms based on quantum mechanics in the tradition of Bohr's atomic model and denies quantum mechanics any explanatory power in chemistry. Here he refers to the number- mystical idea of ​​the prime number cross of the German chemist Peter Plichta . He considers the problem of the collapse of the wave function to be insignificant (see quotations). Like Plichta, he thinks he can replace modern quantum physics in its mathematical complexity with elementary number theoretic considerations.

Quotes

"Numerologists can interpret great historical and cosmic events, predict the future and explain human nature."

(German: "Numerologists can interpret great historical and cosmic events, predict the future and explain human nature.")

"Volumes have been written about the red herring known as Schrödinger's cat . Without science writers looking for sensation, it is difficult to see how such nonsense could ever become a topic for serious scientific discussion. "

(German: "Whole books have been written about the smoke candle known as" Schrödinger's cat ". Without science writers looking for sensations, such nonsense would hardly ever have become a topic of serious scientific discussion.")

"All advances in chemistry happen at the bench, as it should, but without the theoretical understanding, even of common events such as intramolecular rearrangement. No calculation can predict chemical reactions. "

"It is a myth that chemistry derives from quantum theory. More fundamental than both is the periodic table that reduces the properties of matter to a number basis, which is revealed only peripherally in the differential equations of quantum theory. "

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Center for the Advancement of Scholarship 2015 Annual Report
  2. ↑ International Union of Crystallography: Meeting report (IUCr) Indaba 5
  3. ^ A b Jan CA Boeyens, Demetrius C. Levendis: Number Theory and the Periodicity of Matter . Springer Netherlands, 2008, ISBN 978-1-402-06659-7 .
  4. ^ A b Jan CA Boeyens: Chemistry from First Principles . Springer Science, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-1-4020-8546-8 .
personal data
SURNAME Boeyens, Jan CA.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boeyens, Jan Christoffel Antonie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South African chemist
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Wesselsbron
DATE OF DEATH August 26, 2015