Erwin Schrödinger (1887–1961)
Author of What Is Life? : With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches
About the Author
Born and educated in Vienna, Erwin Schrodinger received his Ph.D. in 1910 from the University of Vienna. He developed the theory of wave mechanics (1925--26). For this theory, which furnished a solid mathematical explanation of quantum theory, Schrodinger shared the Nobel Prize in 1933 with Paul show more Dirac. Schrodinger was dissatisfied with Niels Bohr's early quantum theory of the atom, objecting to the many arbitrary quantum rules imposed. Building on Louis-Victor De Broglie's idea that a moving atomic particle has a wave character, Schrodinger developed a famous wave equation that describes the behavior of an electron orbiting the nucleus of an atom. When applied to the hydrogen atom, the equation yielded all the results of Bohr and De Broglie, and was also used as a tool to solve a wide range of new problems in which quantization occurs. In 1927 Schrodinger succeeded Max Planck at the University of Berlin but resigned in 1933 when the Nazis came to power. He left then for England, becoming a guest professor at Oxford University. In 1936 he returned to Austria, but then fled in 1938 under the threat of Nazi arrest and was invited to Dublin's newly established Institute for Advanced Studies. He remained there from 1940 until his retirement in 1956, when he returned to his native Austria and to the University of Vienna, where he held his last chair in theoretical physics. In 1944 Schrodinger published What Is Life? The Physical Aspects of a Living Cell, a book that had a tremendous impact on a new generation of scientists. The book directed young physicists who were disillusioned by the Hiroshima bombing to an unexplored discipline free of military applications---molecular biology. Schrodinger proposed the existence of a molecular code as the genetic basis of life, inspiring an entire generation to explore this idea. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Works by Erwin Schrödinger
The Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics: Dublin Seminars(1949-1955) and Other Unpublished Essays (1995) 4 copies
Four Lectures on Wave Mechanics: Delivered at the Royal Institution, London, on 5th, 7th, 12th, and 14th March, 1928… (2017) 3 copies
What is Life? The Physicist's approach to the Subject -- with an epilogue on Determinism and Free Will (1944) 3 copies
A Física além do senso comum 2 copies
Vad är liv? : ett fysikaliskt perspektiv på den levande cellen ; inklusive Medvetande och materia ; och… (2019) 2 copies
Mennesket og universet : 1. naturvidenskab og humanisme : 2. bevidsthed og materie : (1951) 2 copies
Vida, esp©Ưrito e mat©♭ria 1 copy
Priroda i Grci 1 copy
La mente y la materia 1 copy
CHE COS'E' LA MATERIA 1 copy
Yaşam Nedir? 1 copy
The Present Situation in Quantum Mechanics (a translation of Schrödinger's "cat paradox paper") 1 copy
薛丁格生命物理學講義 : 生命是什麼? 1 copy
Erwin Schrödinger 1 copy
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- Legal name
- Schrödinger, Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander
- Other names
- SCHRÖDINGER, Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander
SCHRÖDINGER, Erwin - Birthdate
- 1887-08-12
- Date of death
- 1961-01-04
- Burial location
- Alpbach, Austria
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- Austria (birth)
Ireland (naturalised) - Country (for map)
- Austria
- Birthplace
- Vienna, Austria
- Place of death
- Vienna, Austria
- Places of residence
- Erdberg, Vienna, Austria
Dublin, Ireland
Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
Zurich, Switzerland
Berlin, Germany
Graz, Austria - Education
- Akademisches Gymnasium
University of Vienna (1906 - 1910)
private tutors - Occupations
- physicist
- Organizations
- Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies (founder Director)
- Awards and honors
- Nobel Prize (Physics, 1933)
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Reviews
Statistical Thermodynamics by Erwin Schrödinger
A clear concise technical approach to the physics of statistical thermodynamics.
An odd little book. mr Schrodinger was a bit of a philosopher. The first chapter was the best, comparing physics at the human scale with physics at the atomic level. Human scale being deterministic and certain, the other being quantum and probabilistic. The ;water chapters get progressively more obscure, although there are a few anecdotes about his life and work.
Scientifically very out of date, often unclear and self-condradictory. Frequently descends into religio-metaphysical mumbo-jumbo. The autobiographical part completely superficial.
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