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Erwin Schrodinger

Vienna, Austria

August 12, 1887 - January 4, 1961

Aug 12, 1887 - Jan 4, 1961

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Erwin Rudolf Alexander Schrodinger was a well renowned Quantum Physicist. His first Nobel prize was given to him in 1933 for physics with British physicist P.A.M. Dirac. In 1926 he produced the papers that gave the foundation to what we know as quantum wave mechanics. Schrodinger's equation (Which is the basic equation for quantum mechanics) has helped scientists solve many questions regarding the wave movements in the universe. This equation helped produce what we know of the quantization of the hydrogen atoms energy levels that appeared in Bohr's atomic model, which then could be calculated from Schrodinger's equation describing how the wave function of a quantum mechanical system evolves. But his most well known experiment was, "Schrodinger's Cat". This experiment has a cat in a box, placed with the cat was a vial of poison. The vial would break if an atom inside the box decays. The atom superposed in decay + non decay states that; Until it is observed, then the cat is superposed in alive or dead states.

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