Chapter III molecular and ionic interactions in dielectrics

There was no truly startling development in 1959, nor, fortunately, were there any serious polemics. The reaction field is still a hone of contention, and the Onsager cavity has come in for a good deal of examination. Szigeti´s work in the Proceedings of the Royal Society on “Higher Order Terms in the Dielectric Constant of Ionic Crystals” is of considerable significance, and other workers in the same field who have been attempting to account for interaction effects will study this paper carefully.