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Electrons as "Matter Waves"

1) Based on deBroglie's ideas, Werner Heizenberg & Irwin Schrodinger independently developed mathematical models that formulated the laws that govern matter.

2) Schrodinger modified equations already developed to describe the behavior of electromagnetic waves and applied them to the behavior of the electron in hydrogen.

3) Schrodinger's results were in excellent agreement with experimental observations. However, his solutions require the existence of three quantum numbers. By contrast, Bohr's model could not explain the existence of any quantum numbers.

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