Erwin Schrödinger was the only son of well-educated parents. His father owned an oil cloth factory and was an amateur painter and botanist. Erwin was taught at home, by tutors and parents, until he ...

1926: Nuclear physicist Erwin Schrödinger writes a letter to Albert Einstein, introducing a new term: wave mechanics. Things are getting particularly interesting. If they are things. Well, probably.

Devised in 1935 by the Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger, this thought experiment was designed to shine a spotlight on the difficulty with interpreting quantum theory. Quantum theory is very ...