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Gregor Wentzel
German physicist (1898-1978) · Germany · On the map · Scientists · Died at 80
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.
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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.
