Pascual Jordan was one of the founders of quantum mechanics. For instance Jordan algebras of quantum observables are named after him.
A brief biography of his scientific life is in the appendix of
See also his Wikipedia entry
Early discussion of quantum mechanics (and apparently introducing that term):
and with emphasis on the Born rule and quantum probability:
Introducing Jordan algebras:
Pascual Jordan, Über eine Klasse nichtassociativer hyperkomplexer Algebren, Nachr. Ges. Wiss. Göttingen (1932) 569-575 [eudml:59403, pdf]
Pascual Jordan, John von Neumann, Eugene Wigner, On an algebraic generalization of the quantum mechanical formalism, Ann. Math. 35 (1934) 29-64 [jstor:1968117, doi:10.1007/978-3-662-02781-3_21]
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