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Erwin was born August 12, 1887 in Austria. He attended the University of Vienna and after attending this college in 1926 her came up with his own wave equation to explain the distribution of electrons in an atom. Later, in 1933, Schrödinger won a Nobel Prize in physics for his discovery and his atomic model was named the Quantum Mechanical model of an Atom.
Quantum MECHANICAL MODEL OF THE ATOM
In 1926, Schrödinger took the Bohr Atom model further and calculated a mathematical equation to discover the probability of an electron occurring in different places or in a certain position. The Quantum Mechanical model of the atom doesn't specifically define the place or movement of the path that the electrons in an atom go rather than give the statistics and probability of an electron being at a certain position in the atom at a certain time. This model is seen and understood as a nucleus surrounded by an electron cloud. This is where Schrödinger found that in the cloud the electrons are more often found in the most dense portions of the cloud and not as likely in the less dense parts of the electron cloud. This is where the concept of sub-energy levels was first introduced. In this model, Schrödinger had put together the two equations, the de Broglie equation in order to make a mathematical equation for the placement of electrons in any atom and for the behavior of waves. "The advantage of this model is that it consists of mathematical equations known as wave functions that satisfy the requirements placed on the behavior of electrons. The disadvantage is that it is difficult to imagine a physical model of electrons as waves." (Cite C) Erwin used this to show that de Brogile's theory about all matter acting like waves is true because even electrons distribution is similar to waves.
This atomic model was created in 1926.