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Erich Hückel’s Education and Scientific Awakening: The Path to Quantum Chemistry

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A lucky star seems to have hung over the year 1896 for quantum chemistry. Three of its founders in the 20th century were born in that year: Erich Huckel, Friedrich Hund and Robert S. Mullikan. Armand Arthur Erich Joseph Huckel was born on August 9, 1896 in Charlottenburg, on the outskirts of Berlin, as the second of three sons to Marie Huckel (1879–1947) nee Maier and the lecturer and medical doctor Armand Huckel (1860–1927). He spent his first 3 years in Charlottenburg with his brother Walter, who was a year older than him, in a spatious apartment on the first story of a building on Schluterstrasse before the arrival of their younger brother Rudi