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Critical Essay By
Dr. Andrew N. Jordan
Professor, The Kennedy Chair in Physics
Co-Director, Institute for Quantum Studies
Schmid College of Science
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Erwin Schrödinger (August 12, 1887 – January 4, 1961) was one of the founders of the field of quantum mechanics, a subdiscipline of physics. He is most noted for the equation that bears his name, as well as his famous cat paradox, that has penetrated into popular culture. He had wide-ranging interests and many discoveries in quantum physics, including the concept and naming of quantum entanglement.
The man
Schrödinger was born and raised in Vienna, Austria-Hungary. His PhD in physics was at the University of Vienna, under Friedrich Hasenöhrl, “On the electric conductivity on the surface of insulators in humid air” in 1910. It was not until the 1920s that he began to work on quantum physics.
He moved around between various academic Institutions in his life, famously leaving Germany’s Fri
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Erwin Schrödinger
(1887-1961)
Who Was Erwin Schrödinger?
Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger was a noted theoretical physicist and scholar who came up with a groundbreaking wave equation for electron movements. He was awarded the 1933 Nobel Prize in Physics, along with British physicist P.A.M. Dirac, and later became a director at Ireland's Institute for Advanced Studies.
Early Life and Education
Schrödinger was born on August 12, 1887, in Vienna, Austria, the only child of botanist and oil cloth factory owner Rudolf Schrödinger and Georgine Emilia Brenda, daughter of Alexander Bauer, Rudolf's professor of chemistry at the Technical College of Vienna (Technische Hochschule Vienna). Schrödinger was taught at home bygd private teachers until he was 11 years old, and then attended Vienna's Akademisches Gymnasium. He went on to enter the University of Vienna, where he focused primarily on the study of physics and was strongly influenced by another young physicist, Fritz Hasenöhr
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Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger
Schrödinger learnt English and German almost at the same time due to the fact that both were spoken in the household. He was not sent to elementary school, but received lessons at home from a private tutor up to the age of ten. He then entered the Akademisches Gymnasium in the autumn of 1898, rather later than was usual since he spent a long holiday in England around the time he might have entered the school. He wrote later about his time at the Gymnasium:-
I was a good student in all subjects, loved mathematics and physics, but also the strict logic of the ancient grammars, hated only memorising incidental dates and facts. Of the German poets, I loved especially the