Erwin Schr�dinger (original) (raw)
Erwin Schrödinger (August 12, 1887 - January 4, 1961) was an Austrian physicist famous for his contributions to quantum mechanics, especially the Schr�dinger equation, for which he won the Nobel Prize in 1933. He proposed the Schr�dinger's cat thought experiment, and he had a life-long interest in Vedanta.
- 1887 Born in Vienna (Erdberg),to Rudolf Schrödinger, cerecloth producer, botanist and Georgine Emilia Brenda, d. o Alexander Bauer, Professor of Chemistry,k.u.k. Technische Hochschule Vienna
- 1898 Akademisches Gymnasium
- 1906-10 Studied in Vienna with (Franz Serafin Exner (1849 - 1926), Fritz Hasen�hrl (1874 - 1915), experimental work with Kohlrausch)
- 1911 Assistant to Exner
- 1914 Habilitation (venia legendi)
- 1914-18 war participation (Görz, Duino, Sistiana, Prosecco, Vienna)
- 1920, April 6, marries Annemarie Bertel
- 1920 Assistant to Max Wien, Jena
- 1920 Sept. a.o.Prof. ("Ausserordentlicher Professor", roughly equivalent to Reader (UK) or associate professor (US)), Stuttgart
- 1921 o.Prof. ("Ordentlicher Professor", i.e. full professor), Breslau (presently Wroclaw, Poland)
- 1922 Zürich University
- 1926 Annalen der Physik : "Quantisierung als Eigenwertproblem".(Quantisation as an Eigenvalue Problem). Schrödingers wave-mechanics/-equation
- 1927 Follows Max Planck in Berlin Humboldt-University
- 1933 term limited Fellow of Magdalen College, University of Oxford
- 1933 Nobel Prize together with Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac
- 1934 Lectures at Princeton University (permanent position not accepted)
- 1936 University Graz,Austria
- 1938 After Hitler occupied Austria: problems due to leaving Germany in 1933 and his known preferences; search warrants, investigations;
Via Italy/Switzerland to Oxford - University of Ghent. At Institute for Advanced Studies in Dublin, Director of the School for Theoretical Physics. About 50 further publications on various topics. Attempts towards a unified field theory.
- 1944 What is Life? (Negentropy, concepts for genetic code);
In Dublin until retirement
- 1955.Returns to Vienna (chair ad personam).
At an important lecture during the World Power Conference he refuses to speak on nuclear energy because of his scepticism about it (he gave a philosophical lecture instead).
External Links
- O'Connor, Robertson, "MacTutor biography of Erwin Schrödinger"
- http://www.zbp.univie.ac.at/schrodinger/bio/bio1.htm (in German)
- http://www.nobel.se/physics/laureates/1933/schrodinger-bio.html
- http://www.photonics.cusat.edu/article2.html Schrödinger's interest in Vedanta
- Erwin Schr�dinger
- Schrödinger Medal of the World Association of Theoretically Oriented Chemists (WATOC)