Austrian physicist who invented wave mechanics in 1926. Wave mechanics was an independent formulation of
quantum mechanics 
to Heisenberg's matrix mechanics. Like
matrix mechanics, wave mechanics mathematically described the behavior of
electrons and atoms. The central equation of wave mechanics, now known
as the Schrödinger equation, turned out to be much simpler for physicists
to solve in most cases.
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