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Erwin Schrödinger
Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger, sometimes anglicised as Schroedinger or Schrodinger, was an Austrian theoretical physicist who developed fundamental results in quantum theory. In particular, he is recognized for devising the Schrödinger equation, an equation that provides a way to calculate the wave function of a system and how it changes dynamically in time. He coined the term "quantum…
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Born 12 August 1887 · Died 4 January 1961 · Q9130
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2026· 10 entries
“Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental. It cannot be accounted for in terms of anything else.”
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chemie: Erwin Schrödinger
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abc.com.py: Un 12 de agosto nacía Erwin Schrödinger, el físico que imaginó al famoso gato cuántico
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Encyclopaedia Britannica: Why did Erwin Schrödinger propose the Schrödinger's cat thought experiment?
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eldia.com.do: El Código de Schrödinger
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moneycontrol.com: Quote of the day by Erwin Schrodinger, "The task is not so much to see what no one has yet seen, but..."
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National Post: Erwin Schrodinger | National Post
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A defence was published challenging some of these allegations
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Magdalena Gronau and Martin Gronau published a paper that criticised Moore's biography, writing that their "findings suggest that the widely circulated allegations in the media stem from a combination of unprofessional,
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2021· 2 entries
“Citation choisie pour le 2 juin 2021.”
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“Citation choisie pour le 6 juin 2021.”
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2013· 7 entries
The Christian Science Monitor: Erwin Schrödinger: Why the Google doodle celebrates him and his cat
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CBS News: Erwin Schrodinger honored with Google Doodle
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Christian Science Monitor: Google Doodle honors Erwin Schrödinger and his paradoxical cat
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International Business Times: Google Doodle of Schrodinger’s Cat Celebrates Erwin Schrodinger’s 126th Birthday [PHOTO]
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Search Engine Land: Google Pays Homage To Nobel Prize Winning Physicist Erwin Schrödinger
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Search Engine Roundtable: Erwin Schrodinger, Austrian Quantum Physicist, Honored On 126th Birthday
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Digital Spy: Erwin Schrödinger celebrated in cat theory Google Doodle
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2005· 1 entry
Awarded Prix Paul Doistau-Émile Blutet de l’Information Scientifique (2005).
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1993· 1 entry
“[citato in Fruttero & Lucentini, Íncipit, Mondadori, 1993]”
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1992· 1 entry
“in Moore, Walter J., Schrödinger: Life and Thought Cambridge University Press (1992). pp.170-73. quoted from Malhotra, R., & Infinity Foundation (Princeton, N.J.). (2018). Being different: An Indian challenge to western universalism.”
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1989· 1 entry
Allegations of sexual abuse of several minors emerged
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1986· 2 entries
“Bewusstsein gibt es seiner Natur nach nur in der Einzahl. Ich möchte sagen: die Gesamtzahl aller »Bewusstheiten« ist immer bloß »eins«." - Geist und Materie, Zsolnay Verlag, Wien 1986, 4. Kap., S. 90, ISBN 3-552-03810-8”
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“Der Grund dafür, daß unser fühlendes wahrnehmendes und denkendes Ich in unserem naturwissenschaftlichen Weltbild nirgends auftritt, kann leicht in fünf Worten ausgedrückt werden: Es ist selbst dieses Weltbild. Es ist mit dem Ganzen identisch und kann deshalb nicht als ein Teil darin enthalten sein." - Geist und Materie, Zsolnay Verlag, Wien 1986, 4. Kap., S. 77, ISBN 3-552-03810-8”
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1984· 1 entry
“in 'The Mystic Vision' as translated in Quantum Questions: Mystical Writings of the World's Great Physicists (1984) edited by Ken Wilber, Shambala Publications, Boston. quoted from Malhotra, R., & Infinity Foundation (Princeton, N.J.). (2018). Being different: An Indian challenge to western universalism.”
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1964· 1 entry
“Schrödinger, Erwin. My View of the World. Cambridge: Cambridge UniversityPress, 1964. quoted from Malhotra, R., & Infinity Foundation (Princeton, N.J.). (2018). Being different: An Indian challenge to western universalism.”
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1961· 10 entries
Died 1961-01-04.
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“Un organismo se alimenta de entropía negativa.”
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“Although I think that life may be the result of an accident, I do not think that of consciousness. Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental. It cannot be accounted for in terms of anything else.”
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“The multiplicity is only apparent. This is the doctrine of the Upanishads. And not of the Upanishads only. The mystical experience of the union with God regularly leads to this view, unless strong prejudices stand in the way.”
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“Dio sa che non sono amico della teoria della probabilità, l'ho odiata dal primo momento in cui il nostro caro amico Max Born l'ha concepita.”
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“Come si può, dal punto di vista della fisica statistica, mettere d'accordo il fatto che la struttura del gene sembra coinvolgere solo un numero relativamente piccoli di atomi (dell'ordine del migliaio e forse molto meno) e il fatto che, non di meno, essa svolge un'attività retta da leggi ben definite e rigorose, in modo così durevole e dimostrando una stabilità che ha del miracoloso?”
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“Our mind, by virtue of a certain finite, limited capability, is by no means capable of putting a question to Nature that permits a continuous series of answers. The observations, the individual results of measurements, are the answers of Nature to our discontinuous questioning.”
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“[Su La descrizione quantica della realtà può essere considerata completa?] Come un luccio in una vasca di pesci rossi, [l'articolo] ha messo tutti in agitazione.”
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“Amate una ragazza con tutto il vostro cuore e baciatela sulla bocca. Allora il tempo si fermerà e lo spazio cesserà di esistere.”
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“Some blood transfusion from the East to the West is a must to save Western science from spiritual anaemia.”
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1960· 1 entry
“Ein rein verstandesmäßiges Weltbild ganz ohne Mystik ist ein Unding." - Brief an Franz Theodor Csokor, datiert Alpbach, 17. September 1960, zitiert in: Mein Leben, meine Weltansicht, mit einem Vorw. von Auguste Dick. - [Lizenzausg.] - Zürich : Diogenes, 1989. (Diogenes Taschenbuch ; 21783) ISBN 3-257-21783-8 - innere Umschlagseite ohne Seitennummer”
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1957· 1 entry
Awarded Austrian Decoration for Science and Art (1957).
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1956· 4 entries
Awarded Erwin Schrödinger Prize (1956).
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Awarded Prize of the City of Vienna for Natural Sciences (1956).
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Following the neutralization of Austria in 1955, Schrödinger returned to Vienna to become a professor emeritus at the University of Vienna
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With an emeritus professor position, and died of tuberculosis in 1961
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1952· 2 entries
“Are There Quantum Jumps? Part II (1952)”
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Suggested that the different terms of a superposition evolving under the Schrödinger equation are "not alternatives but all really happen simultaneously"
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1949· 1 entry
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1949).
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1948· 1 entry
But also retained his Austrian citizenship
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1947· 1 entry
Announced a result, "Affine Field Theory", in a talk at the Royal Irish Academy, but the announcement was criticized by Einstein as "preliminary" and failed to lead to the desired unified theory
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1946· 1 entry
“Letter to Albert Einstein (13 June 1946), as quoted by Walter Moore in Schrödinger: Life and Thought (1989) ISBN 0521437679”
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1944· 2 entries
Schrödinger wrote What Is Life
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“(Original englisch: "The only possible inference from these two facts is, I think, that I - I in the widest meaning of the word, that is to say, every conscious mind that has ever said or felt 'I' - am the person, if any, who controls the 'motion of the atoms' according to the Law of Nature." - What is Life? (1944). Cambridge UP p. 87 books.google”
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1943· 1 entry
Schrödinger gave a series of three major lectures at Trinity College Dublin which remain highly influential at the university
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1940· 1 entry
“C. S. Sherrington, Man on his Nature , 1940”
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1939· 1 entry
Schrödinger received a personal invitation from Éamon de Valera, Ireland's Taoiseach, to reside in Dublin
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1938· 3 entries
When he immigrated to Ireland in 1938, Schrödinger obtained visas for himself, his wife and March.
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Schrödinger obtained visas for himself, his wife and March
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After the Anschluss (German annexation of Austria), Schrödinger had problems in Graz because of his flight from Germany in 1933 and his known opposition to Nazism
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1937· 1 entry
Won Max Planck Medal (1937).
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1935· 6 entries
A paper that codified the concept of quantum entanglement
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“Can Quantum-Mechanical Description of Physical Reality Be Considered Complete?”
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After extensive correspondence with Albert Einstein, Schrödinger proposed what is now called the "Schrödinger's cat" thought experiment
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“On the conditions of the "Schrödinger's cat" thought-experiment, as presented in The Present Situation in Quantum Mechanics (1935), translated by John D. Trimmer”
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“Discussion of Probability Relations Between Separated Systems" (Oct 28, 1935) Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, Vol. 31, Issue 4, p. 555. Also see "Probability Relations Between Separated Systems" Vol. 32 (Oct 26, 1936): pp. 446–451.”
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“Discussion of Probability Relations Between Separated Systems" (Oct 28, 1935) Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, Vol. 31, Issue 4, pp. 555-556. Ref: Albert Einstein, Boris Podolsky, Nathan Rosen, "Can Quantum-Mechanical Description of Physical Reality Be Considered Complete?" (1935) Physical Review Vol. 47, p. 777.”
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1934· 2 entries
Schrödinger had a daughter with Hildegunde March in 1934.
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Lectured at Princeton University; he was offered a permanent position there, but did not accept it
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1933· 5 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (1933).
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“österreichischer Physiker, Nobelpreis für Physik 1933”
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Decided to leave Germany because he strongly disapproved of the Nazis' antisemitism
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“The Fundamental Idea of Wave Mechanics", Nobel lecture, (12 December 1933)”
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1928· 1 entry
“A. S. Eddington, The Nature of the Physical World, 1928”
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1927· 2 entries
Won Matteucci Medal (1927).
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Succeeded Max Planck at the University of Berlin
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1926· 2 entries
“The "Schrödinger equation", equation (3') in "Quantisierung als Eigenwertproblem, Vierte Mitteilung", Annalen der Physik (1926)”
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“Es liegt natürlich sehr nahe, die Funktion ψ auf einen Schwingungsvorgang im Atom zu beziehen, dem die den Elektronenbahnen heute vielfach bezweifelte Realität in höherem Maße zukommt als ihnen." - „Quantisierung als Eigenwertproblem (Erste Mitteilung)“, Annalen der Physik 79 (1926), s. 361-376, § 3, S. 372 thp.uni-koeln.de”
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1925· 1 entry
“Seek for the Road" (1925)”
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1921· 1 entry
Schrödinger moved to the University of Zurich
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1920· 3 entries
Awarded Haitinger Prize (1920).
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Became an assistant to Max Wien at the University of Jena, and in September attained the position of ausserordentlicher Professor (associate professor) at the University of Stuttgart
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On 6 April 1920, Schrödinger married Annemarie (Anny) Bertel (born 3 December 1896).
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1919· 1 entry
Performed his last physical experiment on coherent light and subsequently focused on theoretical studies
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1918· 3 entries
“Writings of July 1918, quoted in A Life of Erwin Schrödinger (1994) by Walter Moore ISBN 0521437679”
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“Writings of July 1918, quoted in A Life of Erwin Schrödinger (1994) by Walter Moore”
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“Writings of August 1918, quoted in A Life of Erwin Schrödinger (1994) by Walter Moore”
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1914· 1 entry
Were checking formulas for capillary pressure in gas bubbles and the study of the properties of soft beta radiation produced by gamma rays striking a metal surface
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1912· 1 entry
At the request of the editors of the Handbook of Electricity and Magnetism, he wrote an article titled Dielectrism
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1887· 1 entry
Born 1887-08-12.
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1838· 1 entry
“If finally we look back at that idea of [Ernst] Mach [1838-1916], we shall realize that it comes as near to the orthodox dogma of the Upanishads as it could possibly do without stating it expressis verbis . The external world and consciousness are one and the same thing.”
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