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Born December 11, 1882 • Germany
Died January 5, 1970 (aged 87) • Göttingen • West Germany
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1954)
Subjects Of Study Born-Oppenheimer approximation • Schrödinger equation • conservation of energy • quantum • wave function

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