Erwin Schrödinger
Physicist, Academic
1887 – 1961
Who was Erwin Schrödinger?
Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger was an Austrian physicist who developed a number of fundamental results in the field of quantum theory, which formed the basis of wave mechanics: he formulated the wave equation and revealed the identity of his development of the formalism and matrix mechanics. Schrödinger proposed an original interpretation of the physical meaning of the wave function and in subsequent years repeatedly criticized the conventional Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics.
In addition, he was the author of many works in various fields 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 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.
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- Born
- Aug 12, 1887
Vienna - Also known as
- Erwin Schrodinger
- Erwin Schrödinger
- Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger
- Parents
- Spouses
- Annemarie Bertel
(1920/04/06 - 1961/01/04)
- Annemarie Bertel
- Religion
- Atheism
- Ethnicity
- Austrians
- Nationality
- Austria
- Republic of Ireland
- Profession
- Education
- University of Vienna
(1906 - 1910) - Akademisches Gymnasium
( - 1906)
- University of Vienna
- Employment
- University of Zurich
- Humboldt University of Berlin
- University of Oxford
- University of Graz
- University of Vienna
- Lived in
- Vienna
- Dublin
- Died
- Jan 4, 1961
Vienna
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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