= Yukito Tanabe
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A theoretical <physicist> who coauthored the electronic-level calculations underlying <Tanabe-Sugano diagrams> with <Satoru Sugano>. The work applied <crystal field theory> to complex ions, balancing the effect of the surrounding ligands with interactions within the d shell. This made optical absorption a way to investigate electronic states in a particular chemical environment.<On the Absorption Spectra of Complex Ions. I by Yukito Tanabe and Satoru Sugano>[Abstract: generalized crystal-field approximation and calculations for d-shell configurations]{ref}
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