Selwyn Fellow Dr James Keeler is one of the authors of the latest
edition of a key textbook for student chemists. Atkins' Physical
Chemistry is acknowledged by students and lecturers around the
globe to be the textbook of choice for studying physical chemistry, and
it’s now being published in its 11th edition.

James tells us: "At the start of the month I was very pleased to
receive from the publisher (OUP) copies of the book I’ve been
working on for the last two years. It’s an undergraduate text
which is used widely in the UK, the rest of Europe, and in North
America. The first edition came out when I was an undergraduate in
Oxford, and since then the book has developed edition-by-edition by
Professor Peter Atkins, and then latterly with his co-author Professor
Julio de Paula. I have joined them as the junior co-author for the 11th
edition. Getting up to speed with such a large book and with two very
experienced co-authors has been a hard job, but ultimately very
rewarding. It's immensely gratifying to finally have the book in my
hand, and I am honoured to be part of the author team for this
well-known text.

“I've also been working on a solutions manual to go with the
text together with a team of recent graduates, including two Selwyn
members Stephanie Smith (now a Teaching Fellow in the Department, and
Bye Fellow of Pembroke College) and Aimee North.  We have not quite
finished this huge task as yet, but are almost there."

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