Erwin Schrödinger

• Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödingerwas born on August 12, 1887

• He was born in Erdberg de, Vienna, Austria-Hungary

• He was the only child of Rudolf Schrödinger and Georgine Emilia Brenda

• He learned English and German almost at the same time

Early years

• Schrödinger married Annemarie Bertel.

• On 6 April 1920

• He had a daughter Ruth Georgie Erica

• She was born on 30 May 1934

Marriage

Achievements

• A student at University of Vienna from 1906-1910

• Erwin Schrödinger was a brilliant theoretical physicist

• A theoretical physicist goal is to rationalize, explain and predict physical phenomena.

Achievements continued

• Also an experimental physicist

• A significant contributor to the wave theory of matter

Achievements continued

• He continued advancements in quantum theory

• Continued advancements in color theory

• Professor at the University of Berlin

Noble prize

• Won the noble prize in 1933

• For the Schrödinger equation

Schrödinger's cat

• A thought experiment

• Devised in 1935

• Presents a cat that might be alive or dead, depending on an earlier random event

Personal life

• Schrödinger suffered from tuberculosis

• Retired in 1955

• personal friend to Albert Einstein

Legacy

• Schrödinger's cat state are still debated today

• Crater on the moon is named after him

• Institute named for him established in Vienna,1993.

Death

• Died on 4 January 1961

• He was 73

• He died in Vienna, Austria

• He diedof tuberculosis

Bibliography

• "Erwin Schrödinger." Erwin Schrödinger. Available from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Schr%C3%B6dinger. Internet; accessed 23 February 2010.

• "Schrödinger's cat." Schrödinger's cat. Available from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat. Internet; accessed 23 February 2010.