Erwin Schrödinger
At a glance:
- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: Twentieth Century
- Categories: Philosophy, Science
- Subcategories: Philosophers, Biology, Biologists, Scientists, Physics, Physicists
- Curriculum: 20th & 21st Century European History
Article abstract: Schrödinger invented wave mechanics in 1926, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics (along with Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac) in 1933, and he helped to develop the formal equations that are central to quantum mechanics. His pioneering work on the relationship between physics and living systems influenced the growth of molecular biology.
Early Life
Erwin Schrödinger was born on August 12, 1887, the only child of a well-to-do Viennese family. The Schrödinger family was part of the intellectual life of Vienna during a period when...
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