... Magic of Quantum MechanicsMax Born (1882–1970), German physicist,professor at the universities of Göttingen,Berlin, Cambridge and Edinburgh, born inBreslau (now Wrocław) to the family of aprofessor ... efficiency. Quantum mechanics, the foundations of which datefrom 1925–26, still represents the basic theory of phenomena within atoms andmolecules. This is the domain of chemistry, biochemistry, ... and inter-acting by electrostatic forces.25This model of matter is at the core of quantum chemistry, Fig. 1.2.The assumptions on which quantum mechanics is based are given by the fol-lowing...