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- In 1926, Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger (1887–1961) used the wave-particle duality of the electron to develop and solve a complex mathematical equation that accurately described the behavior of the electron in a hydrogen atom. The quantum mechanical model of the atom comes from the solution to Schrödinger’s equation. Quantization of electron energies is a requirement in order to solve the equation. This is unlike the Bohr model, in which quantization was simply assumed with no mathematicalbasis.
- Hello, I am Erwin Schrödinger , and I used mathematical equations t describe the likelihood of finding an electron in a certain position. This atomic model is known as the quantum mechanical model of the atom.
- I contributed to atomic theory through formulating quantum mechanics in terms of matrices and in discovering the uncertainty principle, which states that a particle's position and momentum cannot both be known exactly.
- In February 1927, the young Werner Heisenberg developed a key piece of quantum theory, the uncertainty principle, with profound implications. For that discovery, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics for 1932.
- Louis Victor Pierre Raymond, 7th Duc de Broglie was a French physicist and aristocrat who made groundbreaking contributions to quantum theory. In his 1924 PhD thesis, he postulated the wave nature of electrons and suggested that all matter has wave properties.
- I introduced the idea that particles, such as electrons, could be described not only as particles but also as waves. This was substantiated by the way streams of electrons were reflected against crystals and spread through thin metal foils.
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