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 devising the Schrödinger equation, an equation that provides a way to calculate the wave function of a system and how it changes dynamically in time. He coined the term "quantum entanglement" in 1935.