Erwin Schrodinger

  • Born August 12, 1887 in Vienna, Germany
  • My father enjoyed painting and was a botanist.
  • I was taught at home until the age of 11
  • From 1906-1910, I attended the University of Vienna.
  • Assissted Franz Exner in many experiments having to do with physics
  • Once graduated accepted an offer to become a professor at Zurich
  • Studied bohr model, thought atomic spectra should be determined by eigenvalue problems
  • This lead to my creating the wave equation
  • Partner and I recieved the Nobel Peace Prize in 1933.
  • Hitler came into power so moved to England.
  • Moved back to accept a position at University of Graz in 1936.
  • Unfortunately, the German public had seen my move to England as an unfriendly gesture, so I escaped to Italy.
  • I then went to Dublin and became the director of the School for Theoretical Physics.
  • Retired in 1955. Honoured position in Vienna and living with wife Annemarie Bertel.
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    Note: Erwin Schrodinger died on the 4th of January, 1961,of tuberculosis.


Erwin Schrodinger's Atomic Model
Erwin Schrodinger devised a relatively simple design for his atomic model, showing a nucleus surrounded by electron shells . These shells are made up of a number of subshells, the amount of which being the same as the shell number. So there is one subshell in the first shell, two in the second, and so on, as shown in the picture to the right.
Schrodinger proposed the electrons' behavior was wavelike and their exact location could not be easily calculated. His evidence of this was his Schrodinger equation, which gives the quantized energies of the system and gives the form of the wave function so that other properties may be calculated.
The Schrodinger Equation
The Schrodinger Equation

The Schrodinger Equation
atomthingy.gifThis is the atom model developed by Erwin Schrodinger.