Erwin Schrödinger was born on 12 August 1887 in Vienna. An Austrian physicist, Schrödinger developed wave mechanics, one of the foundations of quantum theory. In 1926 he published the equation that bears his name, which describes how the quantum state of a physical system changes over time, and for this work he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1933 with Paul Dirac. He is also known for the Schrödinger's cat thought experiment, devised in 1935 to illustrate the strange implications of quantum superposition. His book What Is Life?, published in 1944, inspired a generation of biologists. He left Germany after the Nazi rise to power, spent many years at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies and returned to Vienna in 1956.
Before and after
- 24 June 1887Birth of Marc Chagall
- 26 July 1887Publication of Unua Libro
- 28 July 1887Birth of Marcel Duchamp
- 8 August 1887Birth of Shmuel Yosef Agnon
- 12 August 1887Birth of Erwin Schrödinger
- 29 September 1887Founding of Hamburger SV
- 6 October 1887Birth of Le Corbusier
- 31 October 1887Birth of Chiang Kai-shek
- 22 December 1887Birth of Srinivasa Ramanujan
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