# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gregor-wentzel
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:04:27.263Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/gregor-wentzel"
name: "Gregor Wentzel"
slug: "gregor-wentzel"
description: "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, superconductivity and meson theory."
tagline: "German physicist (1898–1978)"
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country:
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birthDate: "1898-02-17"
deathDate: "1978-08-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump