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Benjamin Couprie, Institut International de Physique de Solvay


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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

2. Two forms of the Schrödinger equation

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-m

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Who Was Erwin Schrödinger?

Erwin Schrödinger was a Nobel Prize-winning Austrian theoretical physicist. He is most famous for his iconic thought experiment, ‘Schrödinger’s Cat’, and for his wave equation which can be used to find the energy levels of quantum mechanical systems.

Erwin Schrödinger

Schrödinger was born in Vienna, Austria on August 12, 1887. His father was Austrian and his mother was half English so he grew up speaking both German and English at home.

Schrödinger’s most important work was creating a mathematical method that correctly described the energy levels in the Bohr atomic model. Bohr’s theory worked well for hydrogen atoms, but didn’t work so well for more complicated atoms. His groundbreaking wave equation described the movement of electrons by treating them as both particles and waves. It allowed scientists to calculate the energy levels of electrons in more complicated atoms. The wave equation is not the only way to make predictions about quantum mechanical systems, Heisenberg’s matrix mechanics and Feynman’s path integral formulation can also be used