People classified with "Quantum Mechanics"
Total Cataloged: 6
Pascual Jordan 
Country of Origin: Germany
Occupation(s): Physicist
Specialty(ies): Quantum Mechanics
Ernst Pascual Jordan was a theoretical and mathematical physicist who made significant contributions to quantum mechanics and quantum field theory. He contributed much to the mathematical form of matrix mechanics, and developed canonical anticommutation relations for fermions.
Country of Origin: Germany
Occupation(s): Physicist
Specialty(ies): Quantum Mechanics
Max Born 
Country of Origin: Germany
Occupation(s): Physicist
Specialty(ies): Electromagnetism, Quantum Mechanics
Max Born was a German-Jewish physicist and mathematician who was instrumental in the development of quantum mechanics. He also made contributions to solid-state physics and optics and supervised the work of a number of notable physicists in the 1920s and...
Country of Origin: Germany
Occupation(s): Physicist
Specialty(ies): Electromagnetism, Quantum Mechanics
Oskar Klein 
Country of Origin: Sweden
Occupation(s): Physicist
Specialty(ies): Quantum Mechanics
Oskar Benjamin Klein (Swedish) was a Swedish theoretical physicist. Klein is credited for inventing the idea, part of Kaluza–Klein theory, that extra dimensions may be physically real but curled up and very small, an idea essential to string theory /...
Country of Origin: Sweden
Occupation(s): Physicist
Specialty(ies): Quantum Mechanics
Werner Heisenberg 
Country of Origin: Germany
Occupation(s): Physicist
Specialty(ies): Quantum Mechanics
Contributions catalogued: 14
Werner Karl Heisenberg was a German theoretical physicist and one of the key pioneers of quantum mechanics. He published his work in 1925 in a breakthrough paper. In the subsequent series of papers with Max Born and Pascual Jordan, during...
Country of Origin: Germany
Occupation(s): Physicist
Specialty(ies): Quantum Mechanics
Contributions catalogued: 14
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Niels Bohr 
Country of Origin: Denmark
Occupation(s): Physicist
Specialty(ies): Quantum Mechanics, Philosophy of Science
Contributions catalogued: 11
Niels Henrik David Bohr was a Danish physicist who made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922. Bohr was also a philosopher and a promoter of scientific...
Country of Origin: Denmark
Occupation(s): Physicist
Specialty(ies): Quantum Mechanics, Philosophy of Science
Contributions catalogued: 11
9 cataloged
Jan Boeyens 
Country of Origin: South Africa
Occupation(s): Chemist, Mathematician, Physicist
Specialty(ies): Chemistry, Prime Number Theory, Quantum Mechanics
Contributions catalogued: 7
Boeyens was educated at the University of Pretoria. He worked at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research of South Africa and at Stanford University. He became a professor of chemistry at the University of the Witwatersrand and Extraordinary Professor...
Country of Origin: South Africa
Occupation(s): Chemist, Mathematician, Physicist
Specialty(ies): Chemistry, Prime Number Theory, Quantum Mechanics
Contributions catalogued: 7
7 cataloged