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Erwin Schrödinger and the rise of wave mechanics. III. Early response and applications

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This article (Part III) deals with the early applications of wave mechanics to atomic problems—including the demonstration of the formal mathematical equivalence of wave mechanics with the quantum mechanics of Born, Heisenberg, and Jordan, and that of Dirac—by Schrödinger himself and others. The new theory was immediately accepted by the scientific community.

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This article (in three parts) is an expanded version of the Schrödinger Centenary Lecture delivered by me at CERN (Organisation Européenne pour la Recherche Nucléaire), 1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland, on July 30, 1987.

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Mehra, J. Erwin Schrödinger and the rise of wave mechanics. III. Early response and applications. Found Phys 18, 107–184 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01882930

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