Egil Hylleraas

Egil Hylleraas
Born
Egil Andersen Hylleraas

(1898-05-15)May 15, 1898
Hylleråsen, Norway
DiedOctober 28, 1965(1965-10-28) (aged 67)
Alma materUniversity of Oslo
Known forSolving the helium atom
Scientific career
FieldsTheoretical Physics
Quantum mechanics
InstitutionsChristian 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.