Date of Birth | 17-February-1898 | |
Place of Birth |
Oldenburg (Germany, Lower Saxony) |
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Nationality | Germany | |
Profession | Physicist, Scientist | |
Gregor Wentzel was a German physicist known for development of quantum mechanics. Wentzel, Hendrik Kramers, and Léon Brillouin developed the Wentzel–Kramers–Brillouin approximation in 1926. In his early years, he contributed to X-ray spectroscopy, but then broadened out to make contributions to quantum mechanics, quantum electrodynamics, and meson theory. |
Awards by Gregor Wentzel |
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1975 |