Walter Ritz, born 22 February 1878 in Sion, died July 7, 1909 in Göttingen, is a Swiss physicist theoretical physics. Ritz studied at the Federal Institute of Technology Zurich and Göttingen, under the direction of David Hilbert and Woldemar Voigt. It is the latter that he shall, December 19, 1902, his thesis on Theory of spectra in series. In 1903 he went to Leyden to Hendrik Antoon Lorentz meet there, then in Bonn and finally to Paris, where he worked for some time with Aimé Cotton in the laboratories of the Ecole Normale Superieure. His health problems then forcing between 1904 and 1906, attending various hospitals and sanatoriums, but he still continues his research. In 1908, in Göttingen, he met Henri Poincaré, who announces the intention of the Academy of Sciences awarded him a prize for his work. It will indeed posthumously Price Le Conte. He is best known for his work with Johannes Rydberg that led to the Rydberg formula, but also for his pioneering work in quantum mechanics, and finally to the Ritz variational method. Renowned for Rydberg formula Ritz variational method Recognition Awards Leconte PHOTO COPYLEFT
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