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Erwin Schrödinger
1887–1961
Austrian–Irish theoretical physicist (1887–1961)
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1961 January 4, 1961 →Biography
Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger, sometimes written as Schroedinger or Schrodinger, was an Austrian–Irish theoretical physicist who developed fundamental results in quantum theory. In particular, he is recognized for devising the Schrödinger equation, an equation that provides a way to calculate the wave function of a system and how it changes dynamically in time. He coined the term "quantum entanglement" in 1935. Schrödinger shared the 1933 Nobel Prize in Physics with Paul Dirac "for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory."
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le prix Nobel de physique, qui n'avait pas été attribué en 1932, est remis rétroactivement aux physiciens allemand Werner Heisenberg, britannique Paul Dirac et autrichien Erwin Schrödinger, inventeurs/« découvreurs » de la mécanique ondulatoire.
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