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Erwin Schrodinger
1. Erwin Schrödinger
August 12, 1887 - January 4, 1961
"The scientist only
imposes two things,
namely truth and
sincerity, imposes
them upon himself and
upon other scientists."
-Erwin Schrödinger
Created the
Schrödinger
Equation, an
important equation
that is fundamental
to quantum
physics
3. Family History
• Nationality- Austria
• The only child of Rudolf Schrödinger, who was married to
the daughter of his Professor of Chemistry at the Technical
College of Vienna
• Erwin's father came from a Bavarian family which
generations before had settled in Vienna
• Erwin's mother, Emily Bauer, was half English and half
Austrian
• Erwin's father finished his chemistry studies, and devoted
himself to Italian painting. After this he took up botany,
which resulted in a series of papers on plant phylogeny.
4. Education
• Entered the University of Vienna in 1906 and obtained his
doctorate in 1910
• Did military service in World War I and then went to the
University of Zürich in 1921
• During a six-month period in 1926, at the age of 39, he
produced the papers that gave the foundations of quantum
wave mechanics.
• Attended the University of Berlin from 1927-1933
5. Personal Life
• Suffered from tuberculosis
• In 1933 he decided that he could not live in a country in
which the persecution of Jews had become a national
policy.
• Although his relations with his wife Anny were good, he had
had many lovers with his wife's full knowledge
• Asked for Arthur March to be his assistant because, at that
time, he was in love with March's wife Hilde.
• Mid-1933 Hilde became pregnant with Schrödinger's child in
the Italian province of Bolzano
• Died in Vienna at the age of 73 of tuberculosis
• Buried in Alpbach, Austria
6. Contributions & Awards
• Developed the Schrödinger Equation in 1926
• Received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1933
• In 1935, after extensive correspondence with Albert Einstein, he
proposed the Schrödinger's cat thought experiment
• Contributed to the wave theory of matter and to other fundamentals
of quantum mechanics
• One of his lesser-known areas of scientific contribution was his work
on color, color perception, and colorimetry
• The philosophical issues raised by Schrödinger's cat are still
debated today and remains his most enduring legacy in popular
science
• The Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematical
Physics was established in Vienna in 1993
• The huge crater Schrödinger, on the far side of the Moon is named
after him
