Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrodinger Biography

Birth of Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schr”dinger

Attends the Akademisches Gymnasium

Between 1906 and 1910 Schrodinger studies in Vienna under Franz Serafin Exner (1849-1926) and Friedrich Hasenohrl (1874-1915)

Schrodinger publishes in Annalen der Physik the paper "Quantisierung als Eigenwertproblem" [tr. Quantization as an Eigenvalue Problem] on wave mechanics and what is now known as the Schrodinger equation

Schrodinger publishes in Annalen der Physik the paper "Quantisierung als Eigenwertproblem" [tr. Quantization as an Eigenvalue Problem] on wave mechanics and what is now known as the Schrodinger equation

Schrodinger publishes in Annalen der Physik the paper "Quantisierung als Eigenwertproblem" [tr. Quantization as an Eigenvalue Problem] on wave mechanics and what is now known as the Schrodinger equation

Succeeds Max Planck at the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin

Schrodinger decides to leave Germany; he disliked the Nazis anti-semitism

Becomes a Fellow of Magdalen College at the University of Oxford

Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics for discoveries in atomic theory and quantum mechanics.

Highlights the tension between microscopic superposition and everyday observation.

Introduces the cat thought experiment to illustrate quantum measurement problems.

Takes up a position at the University of Graz in Austria

Publication of "What Is Life?"

Death of Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrodinger