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Erwin Schrödinger

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Erwin Schrödinger

1887–1961

Austrian–Irish theoretical physicist (1887–1961)

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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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1887
Birth

Austrian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1961)

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1961
Death

Austrian physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1887)

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