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VIENNA,AUSTRIA

• Erwin was born on August 17,1887
• He went to many places but ended up in Vienna again and again
• Erwin died in 1961, age 73, Vienna, Austria

SCHOOL

• Erwin went to many schools
• He attended University of Vienna
• Other schools he attendee was:
• University of Zurich, 1921
• University of Berlin, 1927

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• Oxford University, around 1933
• Institute of Advanced Studies
• Invited to Princeton University,but declined, 1934
• Earned a P.h.D.
• Nobel Prize, 1933

BACKGROUND OF SCIENTIST

• From Austria
• Wave mechanics
• Traveled a lot

DESCRIPTION OF MODEL

• Called Schrödinger's Wave Equation
• Mathematical

HOW THE MODEL WAS DISCOVERED

• Erwin put together two models:
• An already existing wave equation
• De Brogile Equation

INFLUENCES FOR THE MODEL

• Sparked by Albert Einstein's footnote
• Thought of movement of electrons
• Published work based on Niels Bohr's model

CONTRIBUTION OF ATOMIC THEORY

INTERESTING FACTS

• Artillery officer in WW1 for Italian Front
• Got married
• When in the University of Berlin, he was close to the Nazi Party in Germany
• Left Germany when Hitler became Germany's chancellor
• Won Nobel Prize with Paul Dirac

MORE INTERESTING FACTS

• When invited to Institute of Advanced Studies in Dublin, the Prime Minister, Eamon De Valera
• When going to Dublin, war started in Austria
• Also when going to Dublin, he had little money and very few possessions
• Remained for 17 years
• 1956, war was over and Erwin returned, but after a few years (1961) Erwin fell terribly ill and died

EVEN MORE INTERESTING FACTS

• Erwin's mother was from Lutheran religion, father was a Catholic, but Erwin was an Atheist
• Haytingera Prize, 1920
• Wrote a book "What is Life" about negentropy, complex molecule, and genetic code for living organisms

GLOSSARY

• Footnote: acrillary piece of information at the bottom of a paper
• The two dots above the o: called a trema

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