Erwin Schrödinger (nonfiction)

Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger.

Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger (/ˈʃroʊdɪŋər, ˈʃreɪ-/; German: [ˈɛɐ̯viːn ˈʃʁøːdɪŋɐ]; 12 August 1887 – 4 January 1961), sometimes written as Erwin Schrodinger or Erwin Schroedinger, was a Nobel Prize-winning Austrian physicist who developed a number of fundamental results in the field of quantum theory, which formed the basis of wave mechanics: he formulated the wave equation (stationary and time-dependent Schrödinger equation) and revealed the identity of his development of the formalism and matrix mechanics.

Schrödinger proposed an original interpretation of the physical meaning of the wave function.

In addition, he was the author of many works in various fields of physics: statistical mechanics and thermodynamics, physics of dielectrics, color theory, electrodynamics, general relativity, and cosmology, and he made several attempts to construct a unified field theory.

In his book What Is Life? Schrödinger addressed the problems of genetics, looking at the phenomenon of life from the point of view of physics. He paid great attention to the philosophical aspects of science, ancient and oriental philosophical concepts, ethics, and religion.

He also wrote on philosophy and theoretical biology.

He is well-known for his "Schrödinger's cat" thought-experiment.

Everything that really matters to us

Science puts everything in a consistent order but is ghastly silent about everything that really matters to us: beauty, color, taste, pain or delight, origins, God and eternity.

—Erwin Schrödinger

TO_DO - source (presumably What is Life?)

Fiction cross-reference

• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles
• Mathematics

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Physicist (nonfiction)
• Quantum mechanics (nonfiction)

External links

• Erwin Schrödinger @ Wikipedia