Journal of Statistical Physics, Vol. 42, Nos. 1/2, 1986. p. 1-2.
The theory of reaction rates has engaged the attention of investigators in many fields since the pioneering research of Smoluchowski in the early twentieth century. By now there are a profusion of models that bear on
phenomena in many areas in the physical sciences. The original Smoluchowski model has been reexamined from many points of view, but its limitations are only now beginning to be understood...