
M.A., D.Phil., D.Sc., C.Chem., FRSC
PRESENT POSITION
Chairman of Chemistry, Oxford University and Fellow of Brasenose College,
Oxford
Current research into applications of theoretical chemistry to problems in
molecular biophysics and drug design using a wide variety of computing facilities.
Author of 300 scientific articles and 15 books, with translations into four
languages Founding Scientist of Oxford Molecular Ltd.
Technical Director of Oxford Molecular Group PLC
BIOGRAPHICAL
Full name: William Graham Richards Born: 1 October 1939, Hoylake, Cheshire
BOOKS
Ab initio molecular orbital calculations for chemists.
Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1970 (with J.A. Horsley). 2nd Edition 1983 (with
D.L. Cooper)
Bibliography of ab initio molecular wavefunctions
Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1971 (with T.E.H. Walker and R.K. Hinkley)
Supplement 1970-73
Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1974 (with T.E.H. Walker, L. Farnell and P.R. Scott)
Supplement 1974-77 Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1978 (with P.R. Scott, E.A. Colbourn
and A.F. Marchington)
Supplement 1978-80
Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1981 (with P.R. Scott, V. Sackwild and S.A. Robins)
Entropy and Energy Levels.
Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1974 (with R.P.H. Gasser) Spanish edition 1978
Structure and Spectra of Atoms.
John Wiley, Chichester, 1976 (with P.R. Scott) Japanese edition 1996
Quantum Pharmacology.
Butterworth, London, 1977 2nd Edition 1983; Japanese Edition 1986
Spin-orbit coupling in molecules
. Oxford University Press, 1981 (with H.P. Trivedi and D.L. Cooper)
Structure and Spectra of Molecules.
John Wiley, Chichester, 1985 (with P.R. Scott)
Oxford Illustrated Encyclopaedia.
Vol. I: The Physical World
[editor] Oxford University Press, 1985 The Problems of Chemistry. Oxford University
Press 1986
French edition 1989
German edition 1990
Spanish edition 1991
Japanese edition 1991
Computer-Aided Molecular Design
[editor] IBC London, VCH, New York, 1989
Energy Levels of Atoms and Molecules
Oxford University Press, 1994 (with P.R. Scott)
Computational Chemistry
Oxford University Press, 1995 (with G.H. Grant)
An Introduction to Statistical Thermodynamics.
World Scientific Publishing Co., 1995 (with R.P.H. Gasser)