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apr 1, 1927 - Born-Oppenheimer Approximation

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In 1927, Oppenheimer and Max Born discovered the Born-Oppenheimer approximation, which is an assumption in molecular physics and quantum chemistry. Essentially, the approximation assumes that the nuclei in a compound and the electrons and a compound can be treated differently.

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apr 1, 1927
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~ 99 years ago