Erwin Schrodinger
1887 – 1961 Austrian physicist
The physicist whose wave equation is the heart of quantum mechanics.
- Religion
- Raised Catholic but not a believer; he was drawn to Vedanta, the Hindu philosophy of a single underlying consciousness.
- Affiliations
- Nobel laureate; Institute for Advanced Studies, Dublin. No secret society.
Schrodinger formulated the wave equation that describes how quantum systems evolve, a cornerstone of modern physics. His thought experiment of a cat both alive and dead dramatized the strangeness of quantum theory. His book What Is Life influenced the founders of molecular biology.