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Born on August 12th 1887 to parents Rudolf Schrödinger and Georgine Emilia Brenda, Erwin Schrodinger was raised in Vienna and taught by private tutors until age 11. His father, Rudolf, had a great knowledge of the sciences, primarily Chemistry and he was very supportive in giving his son a similar education.

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Erwin Schrodinger was a student at Vienna's Akademisches Gymnasium until 1906 when he was accepted to the University of Vienna and began to focus his studies on physics. He worked alongside another physicist named Fritz Hasenöhrl who was a major influence. After 4 years in university, Erwin graduated with a Ph.D in physics and only worked for a short period of time as an assistant to Franz Exner until he was drafted as and artillery officer in World War 1. During his time as an assistant he ran experiments for the students and continued to improve his mastery of eigenvalue problems within the physics of moving

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After returning from the war, Erwin worked a variety of teaching jobs at different universities around Germany before finally settling as a tenure professor at the University of Zurich. He was immersed in studies of theoretical physics such as the specific heats of solids, the problems of thermodynamics and of atomic spectra and eventually read a paper written by his co-worker Louis de Broglie in 1925 that shaped his career. Examining the atomic theories of Niel Bohr as well as the wave mechanics published by Broglie, Schrodinger began to examine the movements of electrons as waves instead of leaps, and theorized that it could be calculated using a much loved eigenvalue problem. In 1926, Schrodinger published a paper highlighting all of his discoveries and it became widely accepted and known as the "Schrodingers Wave Equation".
1927 arrived and Erwin took a highly sought after position at the University of Berlin and worked along many older and more experienced physicists, and even had the chance to work with Albert Einstein. The rise of the Nazi Party in 1933 pushed Schrodinger to move out of Germany and accept a fellowship at Oxford University. After a few years he traveled many different countries working in Universities then finally ended up directing the School for Theoretical Physics in Dublin until his retirement.

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Erwin Schrodinger is considered an influential physicist due to his shared Nobel Prize in 1933 with P.A.M Dirac as a result of his wave equation that shaped the theoretical physics community. Along with this, he single handedly directed the Dublin School of Theoretical Physics for many years. He is deemed one of the "Fathers of Quantum mechanics" and some of his experiments are used to this day. For example the "Scrodingers Cat paradox" is still used and referenced to this day, he had used it to explain quantum theory and the behavior of subatomic particles.

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'A cat is placed in a steel box along with a Geiger counter, a vial of poison, a hammer, and a radioactive substance. When the radioactive substance decays, the Geiger detects it and triggers the hammer to release the poison, which subsequently kills the cat. The radioactive decay is a random process, and there is no way to predict when it will happen.'

The atom exists in a state known as a superposition meaning it is both decayed and not decayed at the same time.
Until the box is opened, one cannot know whether the cat is alive or dead, as Schrodinger put it, the cat is "living and dead ... in equal parts".

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