Mathematician:Gregor Wentzel

German physicist best known for development of quantum mechanics

Nationality
German

History

 * Born: 17 February 1898 in Oldenburg, German Empire
 * Died: 12 August, 1978 in Ascona, Switzerland

Theorems and Definitions

 * Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin Approximation (with Hendrik Anthony Kramers and Léon Nicolas Brillouin), also known as the WKB Method, or the Liouville-Green Method or LG Method (after Joseph Liouville and George Green)

Books, Publications, etc.

 * 1921: Über reguläre und irreguläre Dublett (with Arnold Sommerfeld)
 * 1943: Einführung in die Quantentheorie der Wellenfelder
 * 1954: Lectures on Strong Coupling Meson Theory at the University of Rochester
 * 1957: Lectures on Special Topics in Field Theory
 * 1965: Lectures on Special Topics in Quantum Mechanics