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Schrodinger,
Erwin Austrian physicist Born: Vienna, Austria, August 12, 1887 Died: Vienna, Austria, January 4, 1961 | |||||||||
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Schrodinger attended the University of Vienna before World War I. After the war, he was appointed a professor at the University of Stuttgart in Germany, where he turned his attention to the modelling of the atom. He attempted to improve on the atomic model of Bohr, by using the concept of electrons having wave properties. His work was published in 1926, and it was later proven that the wave mechanics of Schrodinger and the matrix mechanics of Heisenberg were equivalent. Schrodinger was awarded the 1933 Nobel Prize in physics for his work on quantum mechanics. In 1928, Schrodinger was appointed a professor of theoretical physics at the University of Berlin, taking over the position of Planck, but when Hitler came to power, he resigned and returned to Austria. In 1938 he left for England, and in 1940 became a professor at the School of Advanced Studies in Dublin. He returned to Vienna in 1956 and lived out the rest of his life there. | |||||||||
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