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Aug 12, 1887 — Jan 4, 1961· 73 yrs

CISLEITHANIA AUTHOR · PHILOSOPHY · SCIENCE

Erwin Schrödinger

Also known as: Erwin Schrödinger, E. Schrödinger

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Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger, sometimes written as Erwin Schroedinger or Erwin Schrodinger, was a Nobel Prize-winning Austrian and naturalized Irish physicist who developed a number of fundamental results in quantum theory: the Schrödinger equation provides a way to calculate the wave function of a system and how it changes dynamically in time. --Wikipedia

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When, early in 1948, I set out to deliver a course of public lectures on the subject dealt with here, I still felt the urgent need of prefacing them with ample explanations and excuses.

— from 'Nature and the Greeks' and 'Science and Humanism' (Canto original series)

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Space-time structure

1950

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What is life? The physical aspect of the living cell

1944

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What Is Life? is a 1944 non-fiction science book written for the lay reader by physicist Erwin Schrödinger. The book was based on a course of public lectures delivered by Schrödinger in February 1943 at Trinity College, Dublin. Schrödinger's lecture focused on one important question: "how can the events in space and time which take place within the spatial boundary of a living organism be accounted for by physics and chemistry?" In the book, Schrödinger introduced the idea of an "aperiodic crystal" that contained genetic information in its configuration of covalent chemical bonds. In the 1950s, this idea stimulated enthusiasm for discovering the genetic molecule and would give both Francis Crick and James Watson initial inspiration in their research.

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Briefe zur Wellenmechanik: Schrödinger, Planck, Einstein, Lorentz

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