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I retired in 2005 from the Radboud University in Nijmegen (The Netherlands) as an Associate Professor in Theoretical Chemistry. Over the years I (co)authored about 150 research papers published  in journals as "the Journal of Chemical Physics", "Molecular Physics", "Physical Review A", etc.,  see [http://www.theochem.ru.nl/cgi-bin/dbase/search.cgi?Wormer here] for a fairly complete list. I got a (cum laude) MSc in Chemical Engineering, but after an internship at a [[Haber_process|Haber-Bosch]] plant I decided that Theoretical Chemistry was more my cup of tea.  My (cum laude) Ph.D. thesis was on Group Theory and the Theory of Intermolecular Forces;  both topics still hold my interest. Most of my working life was on the crossing of Chemistry, Molecular Physics, and Applied Mathematics. Several times I held an appointment as a Visiting Research Professor in Applied Mathematics at the University of Waterloo in Ontario. I was a Visiting Fellow of the Royal Society in Bristol and a Visiting Professor of Theoretical Chemistry in Warsaw.
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Dr Paul E. S. Wormer was born in the city of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. After going to kindergarten, he successfully completed elementary school, high school, and college. Paul Wormer received a master’s degree in Chemical Engineering from the Delft Institute of Technology and a doctoral degree in Theoretical Chemistry from the Catholic University of Nijmegen.
From October 2006 until August 2007 I contributed to Wikipedia under the name P.wormer. After my relatively late arrival at WP I found that most basic science articles were already in existence, so I added mostly to the niche of more advanced, graduate level, science. After a probation period of nine months  I got fed up with  continuously defending my work against attacks by science illiterates and fled to Citizendium. On CZ I soon discovered that this encyclopedia was almost virginal and that the foundation in science still had to be laid. So, I will add as many basic science articles as I can to CZ.
 
I am not a native speaker of English and appreciate it very much when my grammar/spelling/wording is improved.  I hate it, however, when content that I contributed is removed without good explanation (in the associated talk page or my personal talk page). So, please, if you feel it necessary to delete some of my work (and possibly replace it with something else), explain to me why you think so. I may even agree with you! In Wikipedia I was sometimes criticized as being too abstruse and I had to agree with that several times, after which I tried to do a better job. So, please let me know if you don't understand my writings; together we can make something nice.
 
On December 24, 2007 I prepared the following list of CZ articles of which I am the main (often the sole) author.
 
#[[Amedeo Avogadro]]
#[[Amsterdam]]
#[[Angular momentum]]
#[[Angular momentum coupling]]
#[[Antisymmetrizer]]
#[[Associated legendre function]]
#[[Atom]]
#[[Atomic electron configuration]]
#[[Atomic mass]]
#[[Atomic mass constant]]
#[[Atomic orbital]]
#[[Atomic weight]]
#[[Augustin-Louis Cauchy]]
#[[Avogadro's constant]]
#[[Belgium]]
#[[Born-Oppenheimer approximation]]
#[[Carbon]]
#[[Carbon dioxide]]
#[[Classification of rigid rotors]]
#[[Clebsch-Gordan coefficients]]
#[[Copernicus]]
#[[Dalton (unit)]]
#[[Digital object identifier]]
#[[Distribution (mathematics)]]
#[[Eckart conditions]]
#[[Electron]]
#[[Electron configuration]]
#[[Electron orbital]]
#[[Elementary charge]]
#[[Elements]]
#[[Energy]]
#[[Faraday's constant]]
#[[Gaussian type orbitals]]
#[[Gravitation]]
#[[Holland]]
#[[Hydrogen]]
#[[Hydrogen-like atom]]
#[[Ideal gas law]]
#[[Intermolecular force]]
#[[Iron]]
#[[Jacobus Kapteyn]]
#[[Johannes Diderik van der Waals]]
#[[Johannes Kepler]]
#[[Kilogram]]
#[[Laplace expansion (potential)]]
#[[Legendre polynomials]]
#[[Liter]]
#[[Lucasian chair]]
#[[Methane]]
#[[Molar gas constant]]
#[[Mole (unit)]]
#[[Molecular Hamiltonian]]
#[[Molecular mass]]
#[[Molecular orbital]]
#[[Molecular weight]]
#[[Moller-Plesset]]
#[[Multipole expansion (interaction)]]
#[[Multipole expansion of electric field]]
#[[National Institute of Standards and Technology]]
#[[Netherlands]]
#[[Nicolaus Copernicus]]
#[[Nitrogen]]
#[[Orbital]]
#[[Oxygen]]
#[[Planck's constant]]
#[[Ptolemy]]
#[[Relative molecular mass]]
#[[Rigid rotor]]
#[[Rotterdam]]
#[[Slater determinant]]
#[[Slater orbital]]
#[[Solid harmonics]]
#[[Spherical harmonics]]
#[[Stark effect]]
#[[The Hague]]
#[[Unified atomic mass unit]]
#[[Van der Waals equation]]
#[[Van der Waals forces]]
#[[Van der Waals molecule]]
#[[Van der Waals radius]]
#[[Wigner D-matrix]]
 
 
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Dr Paul E. S. Wormer was born in the city of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. After going to kindergarten, he successfully completed elementary school, high school, and college. Paul Wormer received a master’s degree in Chemical Engineering from the Delft Institute of Technology and a doctoral degree in Theoretical Chemistry from the Catholic University of Nijmegen.

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