Neither Physics Nor Chemistry: A History of Quantum Chemistry (Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology)The evolution of a discipline at the intersection of physics, chemistry, and mathematics. Quantum chemistrya discipline that is not quite physics, not quite chemistry, and not quite applied mathematicsemerged as a field of study in the 1920s. It was referred to by such terms as mathematical chemistry, subatomic theoretical chemistry, molecular quantum mechanics, and chemical physics until the community agreed on the designation of quantum chemistry.