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Schrödinger, Erwin
Austrian physicist. He advanced the study of wave mechanics to describe the behaviour of electrons in atoms. In 1926 he produced a solid mathematical explanation of the quantum theory and the structure of the atom. He shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1933 for his work in the development of quantum mechanics.
Schrödinger's mathematical description of electron waves superseded matrix mechanics, developed in 1925 by Max Born and Werner Heisenberg, which also described the structure of the atom mathematically but, unlike wave mechanics, gave no picture of the atom. It was later shown that wave mechanics is equivalent to matrix mechanics.
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