Mauritius Renninger
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Mauritius Renninger (8 June 1905 – 22 December 1987) was a German theoretical
physicist A physicist is a scientist who specializes in the field of physics, which encompasses the interactions of matter and energy at all length and time scales in the physical universe. Physicists generally are interested in the root or ultimate cau ...
noted for his work on crystallography and x-ray optics. He's known for the Renninger effect and for the
Renninger negative-result experiment In quantum mechanics, the Renninger negative-result experiment is a thought experiment that illustrates some of the difficulties of understanding the nature of wave function collapse and measurement in quantum mechanics. The statement is that a p ...
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Renninger negative-result experiment In quantum mechanics, the Renninger negative-result experiment is a thought experiment that illustrates some of the difficulties of understanding the nature of wave function collapse and measurement in quantum mechanics. The statement is that a p ...
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Mott problem The Mott problem is an iconic challenge to quantum mechanics theory: how can the prediction of spherically symmetric wave function result in linear tracks seen in a cloud chamber. The problem was first formulated in 1927 by Albert Einstein and Max ...


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1905 births 1987 deaths 20th-century German physicists {{Germany-physicist-stub