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Schrödinger
[ shroh-ding-er, shrey-; German shrœ-ding-uhr ]
noun
- Er·win [er, -vin], 1887–1961, Austrian physicist: Nobel Prize 1933.
Schrödinger
/ ˈʃrøːdɪŋər /
noun
- SchrödingerErwin18871961MAustrianSCIENCE: physicist Erwin (ˈɛrviːn). 1887–1961, Austrian physicist, who discovered the wave equation: shared the Nobel prize for physics 1933
Schrödinger
/ shrō′dĭng-ər,shrā′- /
- Austrian physicist who founded the study of wave mechanics when he developed a mathematical equation that describes the wavelike behavior of subatomic particles. Schrödinger's equation was fundamental to Paul Dirac's development of quantum mechanics, and he and Dirac shared the Nobel Prize for physics in 1933.
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Consider the well-known quantum puzzle of Schrödinger’s cat.
Schrödinger thought so when he speculated that to understand life, known physics should be supplemented by a “new type of physical law” that might come from quantum theory.
Einstein and Schrödinger saw that tackling biological questions could enhance physics.
There is however a broad physical law that was not widely appreciated in Schrödinger’s time but is now important in physics and biology.
His other books include, most recently, The Quantum Labyrinth and Einstein’s Dice and Schrödinger’s Cat.
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