Erwin Schrödinger

Erwin Schrödinger

1. contributed to the development of quantum mechanics.

2. He was born in Vienna on August 12, 1887.

3. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1933.

4. When he was 11 years old, he studied at Akademisches Gymnasium, one of the most prestigious secondary schools in the German-speaking world.

5. He taught physics classes

6. The ministry gave him the position of Privatdozent in 1914.

7. He was professor of meteorology at the Wiener Neustadt officers' academy in 1917

8. He created the equation that bears his name, in 1926

   • The equation seems to have been inspired by a woman during a vacation.
   • The equation explains the behavior of particles at the quantum level.

9. He’s one of the fathers of quantum theory.

10. Schrödinger and Albert Einstein published the famous theoretical experiment called Schrödinger's Cat.

    • The experiment is still debated on a philosophical level

11. I chose this person, because after Einstein he is one of the most recognized physicists, but he always lived in the shadow of another genius.

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