jan 5, 1926 - Erwin Schrödinger born on 12 August 1887, Vienna, Austria, and died on 4 January 1961, in Vienna, Austria Attended Berlin University, Berlin, Germany, and studied in quantum mechanics. Awarded "for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory". With the Niels Bohr theory, in 1926 Erwin Schrödinger formulated a wave equation that accurately calculated the energy levels of electrons in atoms.
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