Science, serendipity, coincidence, and the Oregonator at the University of Oregon, 1969-1974

Richard J Field; Robert M Mazo; Niklas Manz

doi:10.1063/5.0087455

Science, serendipity, coincidence, and the Oregonator at the University of Oregon, 1969-1974

Chaos. 2022 May;32(5):052101. doi: 10.1063/5.0087455.

Authors

Richard J Field¹, Robert M Mazo², Niklas Manz³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Montana, Missoula, Montana 59812, USA.
² Department of Chemistry, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403, USA.
³ Department of Physics, The College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio 44691, USA.

PMID: 35649975
DOI: 10.1063/5.0087455

Abstract

This historical review of the development of the Oregonator model of the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction is based on a lecture Dick Field presented during IrvFest2015-Celebrating a founding father of chaos!, a meeting in commemoration of Irving R. Epstein's 70 th birthday. For Dick's 80 th birthday festschrift, we focus here on the five papers in the series named "Oscillations in chemical systems," published in 1972 [Noyes et al., J. Am. Chem. Soc. 94, 1394-1395 (1972); Field et al., J. Am. Chem. Soc. 94, 8649-8664 (1972); Field and Noyes, Nature 237, 390-392 (1972)] and 1974 [Field and Noyes, J. Chem. Phys. 60, 1877-1884 (1974); Field and Noyes, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 96, 2001-2006 (1974)].