Erwin Schrödinger (August 12, 1887 - January 4, 1961) was an Austrian physicist famous for his contributions to quantum mechanics, especially the Schrödinger equation, for which he won the Nobel Prize in 1933. He proposed the Schrödinger's cat thought experiment, and he had a life-long interest in Vedanta.
- 1887 Born in Vienna (Erdberg),to Rudolf Schrödinger, cerecloth producer, botanist and Georgine Emilia Brenda, d. o Alexander Bauer, Professor of Chemistry,k.u.k. Technische Hochschule Vienna
- 1898 Akademisches Gymnasium
- 1906-10 Studied in Vienna with (Franz Serafin Exner
- 1911 Assistant to Exner
- 1914 Habilitation (venia legendi)
- 1914-18 war participation (Görz, Duino, Sistiana, Prosecco, Vienna)
- 1920, April 6, marries Annemarie Bertel
- 1920 Assistant to Max Wien, Jena
- 1920 Sept. a.o.Prof. Stuttgart
- 1921 o.Prof. Breslau
- 1922 Zürich University
- 1926 Annalen der Physik : "Quantisierung als Eigenwertproblem".(Quantisation as Eigen Value Problem). Schrödingers wave-mechanics/-equation
- 1927 Follows Max Planck in Berlin Humboldt-University
- 1933 term limited Fellow of Magdalen College, University of Oxford
- 1933 Nobel Prize together with Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac
- 1934 Lectures at Princeton University (permanent position not accepted)
- 1936 University Graz,Austria
- 1938 After Hitler occupied Austria: problems due to leaving Germany in 1933 and his known preferences; search warrants, investigations;
- 1944 What is Life? (Negentropy, concepts for genetic code);
- 1955.Returns to Vienna (chair ad personam).
