What is Erwin Schrödinger?
{{nobelprize|Physics}} [[File:Erwin Schrödinger (1933).jpg|alt=|thumb|Erwin Schrödinger (1934)]] '''Erwin Schrödinger''' (Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger, 12 August 1887, [[Vienna]]-Erdberg {{ndash}} 4 January 1961, Vienna) was an [[Austrian]] [[physicist]] and theoretical biologist. He was one of the founding fathers of [[Quantum mechanics|quantum theory]] and won the [[Nobel Prize in Physics]] in 1933. == Life == Schrödinger went to the Academic [[Gymnasium (school)|Gymnasium]] from 1898 to 1906. Afterwards he studied [[mathematics]] and physics in Vienna and wrote his habilitation up from 1910. He was a soldier in [[World War I]]. Afterwards he got professorships in [[Zürich City|Zürich]], [[Jena]], [[Breslau]] and [[Stuttgart]]. In 1920 he married. In 1927 he went to [[Berlin]] to fellow [[Max Planck]]. After the take-over of power by the [[Nazis]], Schrödinger left Germany and got a new professorship in [[Oxford]]. In 1933 he was awarded the [[Nobel Prize]]. Three years later he returned to Austria and became professor in [[Graz]]. In 1938 he had to leave Austria, because the Nazis had taken over government. He went to [[Dublin]] and became director of the School for [[Physics|Theoretical Physics]]. In 1956 he returned to Vienna and got a professorship for Theoretical Physics. He died of [[tuberculosis]] in 1961. == Important work == Schrödinger's most important work is the wave mechanics – a formulation of quantum mechanics, and especially the [[Schrödinger equation]]. He also worked on the field of [[biophysics]]. He invented the concept of [[negentropy]] and helped to develop [[molecular biology]]. == Related pages == * [[Schrödinger's cat]] == Other websites == {{Commons|Erwin Schrödinger}} {{wikiquote-en|Erwin Schrödinger}} * [http://www.zbp.univie.ac.at/schrodinger/bio/bio1.htm Biography in the Österreichische Zentralbibliothek für Physik (Austrian Central Library of Physics)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070305040705/http://www.zbp.univie.ac.at/schrodinger/bio/bio1.ht