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unusual facts about Kronig–Penney model



August Krönig

August Karl Krönig (20 September 1822 – 5 June 1879) was a German chemist and physicist who published an account of the kinetic theory of gases in 1856, probably after reading a paper by John James Waterston.

Bloch wave

Other much studied periodic one-dimensional equations are the Kronig–Penney model and Mathieu's equation.

Ralph Kronig

In 1927, Kronig returned to Europe for good and worked in different prominent centres of research: Copenhagen, London, Zürich (where for a year he was Pauli's assistant).


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