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This book is a tribute to the life and work of J Q Chen. The contributions of Chen to nuclear and molecular physics are discussed vis-à-vis present developments in these fields. Among other subjects, the present status of microscopic theories of the interacting boson model in nuclear physics and the theory of symmetry adaptation of molecular vibrations in molecular physics are reviewed. The latter theory is particularly useful for large molecular species such as fullerenes, where icosahedral symmetry plays a fundamental role.
Contents:

• A Conceptual Review of the New Approach

Group theory. --- Interacting boson models. --- Nuclear physics. --- Molecules. --- Mathematical physics. --- Physical mathematics --- Physics --- Atomic nuclei --- Atoms, Nuclei of --- Nucleus of the atom --- Boson approximations, Interacting --- Boson models, Interacting --- IBA (Nuclear physics) --- IBM (Nuclear physics) --- Interacting boson approximations --- Nuclear collective models --- Bosons --- Groups, Theory of --- Substitutions (Mathematics) --- Algebra --- Mathematics