Advances in Chemical Physics, Volume 160

STUART A. RICE, PhD,received his master's degree and doctorate from Harvard University and was a junior fellow at Harvard for two years before joining the faculty of The University of Chicago in 1957, where he is currently the Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus.AARON R. DINNER, PhD,received his bachelor's degree and doctorate from Harvard University, after which he conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Oxford and the University of California, Berkeley. He joined the faculty at The University of Chicago in 2003.

• Contributors List ixPreface to the Series xiThermodynamic Perturbation Theory for Associating Molecules 1Bennett D. Marshall and Walter G. ChapmanPath Integrals and Effective Potentials in the Study of Monatomic Fluids at Equilibrium 49Luis M. SeséSpontaneous Symmetry Breaking in Matter Induced by Degeneracies and Pseudodegeneracies 159Isaac B. BersukerMean Field Electrostatics Beyond the Point Charge Description 209Derek FrydelFirst‐Passage Processes in Cellular Biology 261Srividya Iyer‐Biswas and Anton ZilmanTheoretical Modeling of Vibrational Spectra and Proton Tunneling in Hydrogen‐Bonded Systems 307Marek Janusz WójcikIndex 343