Erwin Schrödinger
Erwin Schrödinger
12 August 1887 – 4 January 1961- Books
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Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger, sometimes written as Erwin Schroedinger or Erwin Schrodinger, was a Nobel Prize-winning Austrian and naturalized Irish physicist who developed a number of fundamental results in quantum theory: the Schrödinger equation provides a way to calculate the wave function of a system and how it changes dynamically in time. --Wikipedia
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Erwin Schrödinger is primarily recognized for his foundational contributions to quantum mechanics, particularly the development of the Schrödinger equation, which describes how the quantum state of a physical system changes over time.
Schrödinger's Cat is a famous thought experiment devised by Erwin Schrödinger to illustrate the paradox of quantum superposition when applied to macroscopic objects, involving a cat in a box that is simultaneously dead and alive until observed.
Erwin Schrödinger was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1933, shared with Paul A.M. Dirac, for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory.