The Nobel Prize in Physics 1933
Awarded on: 1933-11-09
"for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory"
Affiliations:
- Berlin University – Berlin, Germany
Erwin Schrödinger
Born: 1887-08-12 in Vienna, Austria
Gender: male
Field: Austrian-Irish theoretical physicist (1887–1961)
Biography
Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger, sometimes written as Schroedinger or Schrodinger, was an Austrian-Irish theoretical physicist who developed fundamental results in quantum theory. In particular, he is recognized for postulating the Schrödinger equation, an equation that provides a way to calculate the wave function of a system and how it changes dynamically in time. Schrödinger coined the term "quantum entanglement" in 1935.