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Erwin Schrödinger

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Also known as Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schröndinger, Erwin Schrodinger, Erwin Schroedinger, Schrödinger, Schrodinger

Austrian physicist (1887–1961)

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Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger was a male physicist, theoretical physicist, university teacher, and non-fiction writer born in Vienna on 12 August 1887. He was educated at the Akademisches Gymnasium, the University of Vienna, and the University of Oxford. Throughout his career, he worked at the University of Vienna, University of Stuttgart, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, and University of Zurich. His citizenship included Cisleithania, Germany, and Nazi Germany.

Schrödinger received the Matteucci Medal, Max Planck Medal, Nobel Prize in Physics, and Erwin Schrödinger Prize. He was a member of the Royal Society, German Academy of Sciences at Berlin, Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, and Academy of Sciences of the USSR. His doctoral advisors were Friedrich Hasenöhrl and Franz S. Exner. He authored works such as *On Modern Physics*, *Discussione sulla fisica moderna*, *On Fundamental Physics and Scientific Knowledge*, *Orientierung im Weltall*, and *Geist und Materie*.

He died of tuberculosis in Vienna on 4 January 1961. His body is buried in Alpbach. He is recognized in the Royal Society collection, the American Academy Arts Sciences collection, and the Nobel Laureates collection. His work is referenced by 893 other encyclopedia articles.

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Person · Open Library

Born
12 August 1887
Died
4 January 1961
Works
63

Top works

  • On Modern Physics
  • Discussione sulla fisica moderna
  • On Fundamental Physics and Scientific Knowledge
  • Orientierung im Weltall
  • Geist und Materie

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Austria
Active from
1887
Active to
1961
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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
50
Total plays
481

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Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger (IPA: [ˈɛrviːn ˈʃrøːdɪŋɐ]) (12 August 1887 – 4 January 1961) was an Austrian theoretical physicist who achieved fame for his contributions to quantum mechanics, especially the Schrödinger equation, for which he received the Nobel Prize in 1933. In 1935, after extensive correspondence with personal friend Albert Einstein, he proposed the Schrödinger's cat thought experiment. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Erwin+Schr%C3%B6dinger">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis

    · 2012 · cited 66,908x

  2. Global and regional mortality from 235 causes of death for 20 age groups in 1990 and 2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

    · 2012 · cited 10,803x

  3. Minimal information for studies of extracellular vesicles 2018 (MISEV2018): a position statement of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles and update of the MISEV2014 guidelines

    · 2018 · cited 9,664x

  4. A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

    · 2012 · cited 9,265x

  5. The mutational constraint spectrum quantified from variation in 141,456 humans

    · 2020 · cited 9,186x

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Authority record · VIAF

Lifespan
1887–1961
Nationality
AT, DE, IE, IT, GB
Role / Field
Physicists, Nobel prize winners, Fisicos, Profesores, Matematicos, Termodinamica
Language
ger, pol
Gender
Male

Recorded by 38 libraries

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Quotes

  • “Nirvana is a state of pure blissful knowledge... It has nothing to do with the individual. The ego or its separation is an illusion. Indeed in a certain sense two "I"'s are identical namely when one disregards all special contents — their Karma. The goal of man is to preserve his Karma and to develop it further... when man dies his Karma lives and creates for itself another carrier.”
  • “No self is of itself alone. It has a long chain of intellectual ancestors. The "I" is chained to ancestry by many factors … This is not mere allegory, but an eternal memory.”
  • “The stages of human development are to strive for: (1) Besitz [Possession] (2) Wissen [Knowledge] (3) Können [Ability] (4) Sein [Being]”
  • “\frac{\partial \psi}{\partial t} = -\frac{2 \pi i}{h} E \psi”
  • “Although I think that life may be the result of an accident, I do not think that of consciousness. Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental. It cannot be accounted for in terms of anything else.”
  • “If one has left this entire system to itself for an hour, one would say that the cat still lives if meanwhile no atom has decayed. The psi-function of the entire system would express this by having in it the living and dead cat (pardon the expression) mixed or smeared out in equal parts.”

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Physics1933

    “for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory”

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Encyclopedic overview

Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger (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 devising the Schrödinger equation, an equation that provides a way to calculate the wave function of a system and how it changes dynamically in time. He coined the term "quantum entanglement" in 1935. Schrödinger shared the 1933 Nobel Prize in Physics with Paul Dirac "for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory".

In addition, Schrödinger 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 "Schrödinger's cat", a thought experiment. He and Dirac tied for eighth in a Physics World poll of the greatest physicists of all time.

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