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1933

Nobel Lecture: The Fundamental Idea of Wave Mechanics

Erwin Schrödinger

Explains how treating de Broglie's matter waves as a genuine wave equation reproduces the discrete energy levels that quantum theory needed to explain.

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Nobel Lecture: The Wave Nature of the ElectronLouis de Broglie, 1929Argues that matter, like light, has both a wave and a particle character, and that a definite wavelength should be associated with every moving electron.

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