Erwin Schrödinger
a Nobel Prize-winning Austrian physicist with Irish citizenship who developed a number of fundamental results in quantum theory
Born
Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger 12 August 1887 Vienna, Austria-Hungary
Died
4 January 1961 (aged 73) Vienna, Austria
Nationality
Austrian
Known for
List Schrödinger equation Schrödinger's cat Cat state Schrödinger method Schrödinger functional Schrödinger group Schrödinger picture Schrödinger field Rayleigh-Schrödinger perturbation Robertson–Schrödinger
Fields
Physics
Alma mater
University of Vienna
Awards
Matteucci Medal (1927) Nobel Prize in Physics (1933) Max Planck Medal (1937)
Institutions
University of Breslau University of Zürich Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Berlin University of Oxford University of Graz Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies Ghent University
Spouse(s)
Annemarie Bertel ( m. 1920)
adultbasic
Germany
Citizenship
Austria Ireland (from 1948)
Doctoral advisor
Friedrich Hasenöhrl
era
1800+
Other academic advisors
Franz S. Exner
Thesis
Über die Leitung der Elektrizität auf der Oberfläche von Isolatoren an feuchter Luft (On the conduction of electricity on the surface of insulators in humid air) (1910)
Website
https://www.schrodinger.in