The Case of the Wandering Model : Notes from the Oesper Collections, No. 35, November/December 2015

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Hans Jaffé (1919-1989)

Hans Jaffé (1919-1989)

Issue 35 recounts the recent discovery of a plaster model of the electron density of naphthalene discovered in the bottom drawer of one of the filing cabinets belonging to the late Hans Jaffé, who served as the UC chemistry department’s specialist in quantum mechanics from 1954-1989.

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