"The simplified treatment presented here has as its basis the theory of quantum mechanics developed independently in the 1920s by Heisenberg, Schrödinger, and Dirac. In this theory, the movement of an electron around a nucleus is expressed in the form of equations that are very similar to those characteristic of waves. The solutions to these equations, called atomic orbitals, allow us to describe the probability of finding the electron in a certain region in space. The shapes of these regions depend on the energy of the electron."
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K. Peter C. Vollhardt, Neil E. Schore (2011) Organic chemistry : structure and function 6th ed. Chapter 1. Structure and Bonding in Organic Molecules
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