Walter Heitler
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Walter Heinrich Heitler (1904-1981)
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| Born |
January 2, 1904 Karlsruhe, German Empire |
| Died | November 15, 1981 (aged 77) Zollikon, Meilen, Switzerland |
| Nationality | German |
| Fields | Quantum mechanics |
| Institutions |
Georg-August University of Göttingen University of Bristol Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies University of Zurich |
| Alma mater | Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich |
| Doctoral advisor | Karl Herzfeld |
| Other academic advisors | Arnold Sommerfeld |
| Notable students | Sigurd Zienau |
| Influenced | Linus Pauling |
| Notable awards | Max Planck Medal (1968) Marcel Benoist Prize (1969) Fellow of the Royal Society |
Walter Heinrich Heitler (German: [ˈhaɪtlɐ]; 2 January 1904 – 15 November 1981) was a German physicist who made contributions to quantum electrodynamics and quantum field theory. He brought chemistry under quantum mechanics through his theory of valence bonding.
In 1922, Heitler began his study of physics at the Karlsruhe Technische Hochschule, in 1923 at the Humboldt University of Berlin, and in 1924 at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU), where he studied under both Arnold Sommerfeld and Karl Herzfeld. The latter was his thesis advisor when he obtained his doctorate in 1926; Herzfeld taught courses in theoretical physics and one in physical chemistry, and in Sommerfeld's absence often took over his classes. From 1926 to 1927, he was a Rockefeller Foundation Fellow for postgraduate research with Niels Bohr at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of Copenhagen and with Erwin Schrödinger at the University of Zurich. He then became an assistant to Max Born at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the Georg-August University of Göttingen. Heitler completed his Habilitation, under Born, in 1929, and then remained as a Privatdozent until 1933. In that year, he was let go by the university because he was Jewish.
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