Erwin+Schrodinger(DD)


 * //__Erwin Schrodinger__//**



date of birth: August 12th 1887 date of death: January 4th 1961 country of origin: Austria-Hungary

· was born on August 12, 1887, in Vienna, the only child of Rudolf Schrödinger and Alexander Bauer · From 1906 to 1910 he was a student at the University of Vienna and came under strong influence of Fritz Hasenohrl · He took a few different assistant jobs at numerous prestigous universities until he settled at the University of Zurich for six years. · Here Erwin worked with Professor Max Wien · He was most known for his work with the wave equation due to his dissatisfaction with the quantam condition of Bohr’s orbit theory · Erwin believed that atomic spectra should really be determined by some kind of complicated problem · Erwin was not satisfied with Bohr’s orbit theory · He published a book on wave mechanics and created was is now known as the Schrodinger equation · In this paper he gave a derivation of the wave equation for time independent systems · This paper was known as one of the most important achievements in the twentieth century and created a revolution in quantum mechanics. · A month later he wrote a paper that solved the quantum harmonic oscillator, the rigid rotor and the diatomic molecule, and gives a new derivation of the Schrodinger equation · Due to his discovery of the wave equation his was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1933