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Friedrich Hund
(4 Feb 1896 - 31 Mar 1997)
German physicist. German physicist who worked on the electronic structure of atoms and molecules. He is known for his empirical Hund's Rules (1925) for atomic spectra.
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Science Quotes by Friedrich Hund (1)
One may characterize physics as the doctrine of the repeatable, be it a succession in time or the co-existence in space. The validity of physical theorems is founded on this repeatability.
— Friedrich Hund
In Geschichte der physikalischen Begriffe (1972), 274. Quoted in Erhard Scheibe and Brigitte Falkenburg (ed), Between Rationalism and Empiricism: Selected Papers in the Philosophy of Physics (2001), 276
