Shelter Island Conference on Quantum Mechanics in Valence Theory was a chemistry conference held in 1951. It was sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences.
The Nobel laureate Robert S. Mulliken organized the meeting. The other participants were
In 1981, J.C. Light wrote, in an issue of The Journal of Physical Chemistry, that it presented papers from a conference that was "merely the latest in a long sequence of ... conferences ... on theoretical chemistry spanning 3 decades ..." followed by a list that began with the Shelter Island conference.J.C. Light, American Conference on Theoretical Chemistry: Introductory Remarks. Journal of Physical Chemistry, 86, 2111-12, 1982 In 1996, Parr wrote "The fall of 1951 was an exciting time for quantum chemistry ... the Shelter Island Conference on Quantum-Mechanical Methods in Valence Theory ... was singularly important ... ".R.G. Parr, The Genesis of a Theory, International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, 37, 327--347, 1996. References