Schr�dinger, Erwin 1887-1961
Austrian physicist and Nobel Prize winner

Born in Vienna, he was educated at Vienna University. From 1920 he was professor at Stuttgart (1920), Jena (1920-21), Breslau (1921) and Zurich (1921-27). He succeeded Max Planck as Professor of Physics at the University of Berlin before returning to Austria as professor at Graz University (1936-38). After the Anschluss, he fled to Dublin where he worked at the Institute for Advanced Studies (1938-56), then returned to Austria as emeritus professor at Vienna University. Inspired by Louis-Victor de Broglie's proposal of wave-particle duality, Schr�dinger originated the science of wave mechanics as part of the quantum theory with his celebrated wave equation. P A M Dirac soon developed a more complete theory of quantum mechanics from their foundations, and for this work Schr�dinger and Dirac shared the 1933 Nobel Prize for physics. Schr�dinger wrote What is Life (1946) and Science and Man (1958).

Bibliography: William T Scott, Erwin Schr�dinger: An Introduction to His Writings (1967)