Physicist · 1887 – 1961
Erwin Schrödinger
Little-Known Facts
- Schrödinger's book What Is Life? is credited with inspiring both Francis Crick and James Watson toward the study of DNA.
- He developed his wave equation during a productive holiday in the Swiss Alps over the winter of 1925–26.
Myths & Misconceptions
Did Schrödinger believe a cat could be both alive and dead?
No. He proposed the cat paradox precisely to highlight how absurd a naive reading of quantum superposition becomes when scaled to everyday objects.