= Charles Alfred Coulson
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<Charles Alfred Coulson> coauthored research on <molecular orbital>.<Note on the method of molecular orbitals by Charles Alfred Coulson and G. S. Rushbrooke>[publication title and author list]{ref}
A <molecular orbital> is a one-<electron> spatial <wavefunction> for the combined <atomic nuclei> of a <molecule>. For a normalized <molecular orbital>, the <Born rule> gives the position <probability density> $|\psi(\mathbf r)|^2$, with $\int_{\mathbb R^3}|\psi|^2\,d^3\mathbf r=1$. The <molecular orbital> is the amplitude, rather than its squared <modulus> or a classical trajectory.
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