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A database of numerical data on atomic and molecular physics relevant to fusion has been built with the emphasis on reliability and accuracy rather than on quantity. Since leading experts in any scientific discipline are always the best people to recommend data in that discipline, we have used leading Atomic Physicists, both experimental and theoretical, to decide each and every numerical value in the database. The School of Physics and Mathematical Sciences at Queen’s, set up by Professor Sir David Bates, was an ideal location for the database as it provided the expert experimentalists, the expert theoreticians and, in addition, the Computer Scientists needed to design and manage the database system.
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Smith, F.J. (1987). An Expert Database on Atomic and Molecular Physics. In: Kingston, A.E. (eds) Recent Studies in Atomic and Molecular Processes. Physics of Atoms and Molecules. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-5398-0_11
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