Gregor Wentzel, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Gregor Wentzel

German physicist

Date of Birth: 17-Feb-1898

Place of Birth: Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Date of Death: 12-Aug-1978

Profession: physicist, mathematician, university teacher, theoretical physicist

Nationality: United States, Germany

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Gregor Wentzel (17 February 1898 – 12 August 1978) was a German physicist known for development of quantum mechanics.
Wentzel, Hendrik Kramers, and Léon Brillouin developed the Wentzel–Kramers–Brillouin approximation in 1926.
In his early years, he contributed to X-ray spectroscopy, but then broadened out to make contributions to quantum mechanics, quantum electrodynamics, and meson theory.