Walter Heitler
    
    
    
        Born on January. 2nd, 1904. Professor, Physical Institut of the University of Zürich (Switzerland).
    
    
    
Author of:
    
        "Quanten Theorie der homeopolar bindung" (Handbuch der Radiologie, 6, 2 (1934)), "Elementary Wave Mechanics" (Clarendon Press).
    
                    
Important Contributions:
    
        The first wave-mechanical treatment of the hydrogen molecule (with London). Electronic properties of saturated molecules. Quantum theory of fields.
    
	An obituary can be found at 
	
http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/769896.pdf.