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Erwin Schrödinger

1887 - 1961

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Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger ( SHROH-ding-er; German: [ˈʃʁøːdɪŋɐ] ; 12 August 1887 – 4 January 1961), sometimes written as Schroedinger or Schrodinger, was an Austrian-Irish theoretical physicist who developed fundamental results in quantum theory. In particular, he is recognized for postulating the Schrödinger equation, an equation that provides a way to calculate the wave function of a system and how it changes dynamically in time. Schrödinger coined the term "quantum entanglement" in 1935. In addition, he wrote many works on various aspects of physics: statistical mechanics and thermodynamics, physics of dielectrics, color theory, electrodynamics, general relativity, and cosmology, and he made several attempts to construct a unified field theory. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Erwin Schrödinger is the 16th most popular physicist (up from 21st in 2019), the 11th most popular biography from Austria (up from 15th in 2019) and the most popular Austrian Physicist.

Erwin Schrödinger was a physicist who formulated the Schrödinger equation, which is used to describe the behavior of quantum particles.

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Among physicists, Erwin Schrödinger ranks 16 out of 851. Before him are Max Planck, Alessandro Volta, Albert A. Michelson, Pierre Curie, André-Marie Ampère, and Evangelista Torricelli. After him are Henri Becquerel, J. J. Thomson, James Prescott Joule, Ernest Rutherford, Edward Victor Appleton, and Werner Heisenberg.

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Among people born in 1887, Erwin Schrödinger ranks 3. Before him are Le Corbusier, and Chiang Kai-shek. After him are Bernard Montgomery, Marc Chagall, Charles I of Austria, Erich von Manstein, Padre Pio, Marcel Duchamp, Srinivasa Ramanujan, Ernst Röhm, and Gustav Ludwig Hertz. Among people deceased in 1961, Erwin Schrödinger ranks 3. Before him are Carl Jung, and Ernest Hemingway. After him are Zog I of Albania, Dag Hammarskjöld, Patrice Lumumba, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Emily Greene Balch, Lee de Forest, Jules Bordet, Gary Cooper, and Percy Williams Bridgman.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Erwin Schrödinger ranks 11 out of 1,424. Before him are Franz Schubert (1797), Maria Theresa (1717), Marie Antoinette (1755), Franz Liszt (1811), Johann Strauss II (1825), and Gustav Klimt (1862). After him are Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947), Stefan Zweig (1881), Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889), Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor (1527), Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (1459), and Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria (1858).

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Among physicists born in Austria, Erwin Schrödinger ranks 1. After him are Lise Meitner (1878), Wolfgang Pauli (1900), Ludwig Boltzmann (1844), Christian Doppler (1803), Victor Francis Hess (1883), Victor Weisskopf (1908), Anton Zeilinger (1945), Walter Kohn (1923), Otto Robert Frisch (1904), Fritjof Capra (1939), and Berta Karlik (1904).

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