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Hydrogen Spectrum Wave Mechanics

Austria · Science / Physics. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1926

Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrodinger1926

Zurich · Science / Physics

Uses the new wave equation to derive the allowed energy levels of the hydrogen atom from an eigenvalue problem rather than prescribed electron orbits.

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Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrodinger

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