Egil Hylleraas
Egil Hylleraas | |
|---|---|
| Born | Egil Andersen Hylleraas May 15, 1898 Hylleråsen, Norway |
| Died | October 28, 1965 (aged 67) |
| Alma mater | University of Oslo |
| Known for | Solving the helium atom |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Theoretical Physics Quantum mechanics |
| Institutions | Christian Michelson Institute, Bergen University of Oslo |
Egil Andersen Hylleraas (May 15, 1898 – October 28, 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.