<P> In 1925 , a new kind of mechanics was proposed , quantum mechanics , in which Bohr 's model of electrons traveling in quantized orbits was extended into a more accurate model of electron motion . The new theory was proposed by Werner Heisenberg . Another form of the same theory , wave mechanics , was discovered by the Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger independently , and by different reasoning . Schrödinger employed de Broglie 's matter waves , but sought wave solutions of a three - dimensional wave equation describing electrons that were constrained to move about the nucleus of a hydrogen - like atom , by being trapped by the potential of the positive nuclear charge . </P>
<P> In 1925 , a new kind of mechanics was proposed , quantum mechanics , in which Bohr 's model of electrons traveling in quantized orbits was extended into a more accurate model of electron motion . The new theory was proposed by Werner Heisenberg . Another form of the same theory , wave mechanics , was discovered by the Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger independently , and by different reasoning . Schrödinger employed de Broglie 's matter waves , but sought wave solutions of a three - dimensional wave equation describing electrons that were constrained to move about the nucleus of a hydrogen - like atom , by being trapped by the potential of the positive nuclear charge . </P>
who discovered the quantum mechanical model of the atom
who discovered the quantum mechanical model of the atom
Werner Heisenberg
Werner Heisenberg