Erwin Schrödinger
- Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger
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- Schrödinger, Erwin
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- Date of birth
- 1887-08-12
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- Wien
- Date of death
- 1961-01-04
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- Wien
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Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger ( SHROH-ding-er; German: [ˈʃʁøːdɪŋɐ] ; 12 August 1887 – 4 January 1961), sometimes written as Schroedinger or Schrodinger, was an Austrian-Irish theoretical physicist who developed fundamental results in quantum theory. In particular, he is recognized for postulating the Schrödinger equation, an equation that provides a way to calculate the wave function of a system and how it changes dynamically in time. Schrödinger coined the term "quantum entanglement" in 1935.
In addition, he wrote many works on various aspects of physics: statistical mechanics and thermodynamics, physics of dielectrics, color theory, electrodynamics, general relativity, and cosmology, and he made several attempts to construct a unified field theory. In his book What Is Life? Schrödinger addressed the problems of genetics, looking at the phenomenon of life from the point of view of physics. He also paid great attention to the philosophical aspects of science, ancient, and oriental philosophical concepts, ethics, and religion. He also wrote on philosophy and theoretical biology. In popular culture, he is best known for his "Schrödinger's cat" thought experiment.
Spending most of his life as an academic with positions at various universities, Schrödinger, along with Paul Dirac, won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1933 for his work on quantum mechanics, the same year he left Germany due to his opposition to Nazism. In his personal life, he lived with both his wife and his mistress which may have led to problems causing him to leave his position at Oxford. Subsequently, until 1938, he had a position in Graz, Austria, until the Nazi takeover when he fled, finally finding a long-term arrangement in Dublin, Ireland, where he remained until retirement in 1955, and where he allegedly sexually abused several minors.
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Nobel Prize-winning Austrian and naturalized Irish physicist.
Last modified: 2023-05-24 (revision #140987)
Editions
Name | Format | ISBN | Release Date |
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Was ist Leben? Die lebende Zelle mit den Augen des Physikers betrachtet | Paperback | 3-492-11134-3 | 1989-10 |
Mein Leben, meine Weltansicht | Hardcover | 3-552-03712-8 | 1985 |
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- Erwin Schrödinger is the subject of "Was ist Leben?" - mehr als vierzig Jahre später
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