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Erwin Schrodinger was born on August 12, 1887 in Vienna, Austria. He lived to be 74 when he died on January 4, 1961. He is known for his contributions to quantum mechanics, especially the Schrodinger equation, in which he won the Nobel Prize in 1933. Between 1914 and 1918 he participated in war work as a commissioned officer in the Austrian fortress artillery. In 1933 Schrodinger left Germany because he did not believe in the Nazi's anti-semitism. He became a Fellow of Magdalen College at the University of Oxford but was dismissed because he was a player and lived with two women. Getting the ladies doesn't always pay off. Schrodinger suffered from tuberculosis and had to stay at a sanatorium in Arosa. It is here that he discovered his wave equation.

The Schrodinger equation is an equation that describes how the quantum state of a physical system changes in time. What this means is that there is a wave equation in terms of a wave function that predicts analytically and precisely the probabilty if events or outcomes. This equation has been used by scientists years to come in oder to prevent certain outcomes. This equation is used as a way to "see into the future" with scientific experiments.