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Egil Hylleraas
Egil Andersen Hylleraas (15 May 1898 – 28 October 1965) was a Norwegian theoretical physicist known for creating a method for predicting the ground state energy of two-electron atoms and trial wave functions for many-electron atoms.
Egil Andersen Hylleraas was born in the town of Hylleråsen, Norway in 1898. Hylleraas was the youngest of ten children.
He worked as a logger until 1916 where he attended secondary school in Oslo. In 1918, he joined the University of Oslo majoring in physics in 1924. He later worked as a school teacher.
Hylleraas started publishing on crystallography. His work attracted the attention of Max Born, who invited him to join him at the University of Göttingen. Hylleraas worked there on quantum mechanics and on the helium atom. In 1929, he published his solution to the helium atom which matched experimental values, confirming the validity of quantum mechanics for many-electron atoms.
He married Magda Christiansen in 1926. They had a daughter Inger in 1927.
In 1931, he took a position at the Christian Michelsen Institute in Bergen, and in 1937 he was offered a professor position at the University of Oslo.
Hylleraas was one of the founding fathers of CERN and represented Norway at the European Council for Nuclear Research,[non-primary source needed] which later led to the organization's establishment.
He died in 1965.
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Egil Hylleraas
Egil Andersen Hylleraas (15 May 1898 – 28 October 1965) was a Norwegian theoretical physicist known for creating a method for predicting the ground state energy of two-electron atoms and trial wave functions for many-electron atoms.
Egil Andersen Hylleraas was born in the town of Hylleråsen, Norway in 1898. Hylleraas was the youngest of ten children.
He worked as a logger until 1916 where he attended secondary school in Oslo. In 1918, he joined the University of Oslo majoring in physics in 1924. He later worked as a school teacher.
Hylleraas started publishing on crystallography. His work attracted the attention of Max Born, who invited him to join him at the University of Göttingen. Hylleraas worked there on quantum mechanics and on the helium atom. In 1929, he published his solution to the helium atom which matched experimental values, confirming the validity of quantum mechanics for many-electron atoms.
He married Magda Christiansen in 1926. They had a daughter Inger in 1927.
In 1931, he took a position at the Christian Michelsen Institute in Bergen, and in 1937 he was offered a professor position at the University of Oslo.
Hylleraas was one of the founding fathers of CERN and represented Norway at the European Council for Nuclear Research,[non-primary source needed] which later led to the organization's establishment.
He died in 1965.