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Born August 12, 1887 • Vienna • Austria
Died January 4, 1961 (aged 73) • Vienna • Austria
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1933)
Notable Works “My View of the World” • “Nature and the Greeks”
Subjects Of Study Schrödinger equation • quantum

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