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Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger developed quantum theory’s wave equation, which describes quantum systems as waves that ...

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A collage of images of Schrödinger, his 100-year-old paper and his equation. The Schrödinger equation was integral to changing the way the world saw chemistry as a science. Credit: Madeline Monroe/TKH ...