1. Hannah Conwell Courtney Harris
Erwin Schrödinger
Hannah Conwell
Courtney Harris

2. Early Life Born on August 12, 1887 in Vienna, Austria
Child of botanist and oil cloth factory owner Rudolf Schrödinger and Gerogine Emilia Brenda
Erwin was taught by private teachers until he was 11
Went to the University of Vienna where he studied physics
Early Life

3. Focused primarily on the study of physics and was strong influenced by Fritz Hasenohrl
Graduated with a Ph.D. in physics in 1910
Worked for a few years at various institutions as an assistant but was drafted into World War 1 in 1914
Returning to civilian life, Schrödinger married Annemarie Bertel in 1920
He also took on a number of postions at different universities, before joining the University of Zurich in 1921

4. He came upon the work of Louis de Broglie in 1925, which sparked his interest in explaining that an electron in an atom would move as a wave.
The following year, he wrote a revolutionary paper that we know as the Schrodinger wave equation.
He was a theoretical physicist and scholar who came up with a groundbreaking wave equation for electron movements.
Later became a director at Ireland’s institute for advanced studies

5. In 1926, Schrödinger published a remarkable series of four papers in the prestigious “Annalen der Physik” journal
marked the central achievement of his career
Published Works

6. Devised a hypothetical experiment in 1935 where a cat is placed in a sealed box with a radioactive sample, a Geiger counter, and a bottle of poison
If the Geiger counter detects the radioactive material has decayed it would then trigger the smashing of a bottle of poison that would kill the cat
Experiment designed to illustrate the flaws of Copenhagen interpretation by Bohr, which states that a particle exists in all states at once until it is observed
Schrodinger’s cat

7. Niels Bohr proposed a solution to create the events we all observe
Niels Bohr proposed a solution to create the events we all observe. He assumed that conscious observation caused events.
If Copenhagen is correct it would suggest that radioactive material could have decayed and not decayed in a sealed environment all at once
An observer would not know if the cat is dead or alive until the box is opened
This would suggest that the cat is both alive and dead until it is opened
Discredited the Copenhagen interpretation

8. Quantum Mechanical Model
Furthered the wave-particle theory
Derived an equation that treated the hydrogen atoms’ electron as a wave
Combined the equations for the behavior of waves
The model limits an electron’s energy to certain values
Unlike Bohr’s, his model makes no attempt to describe the electron’s path around the nucleus
Quantum Mechanical Model

9. Instead of trying to tell us where the electron is at any time, the model describes the probability that an electron can be found in a given region of space at a given time.
The model longer tells us where the electron is; it only tells us where it might be
Contribution

10. Wave Equation or Schrödinger Equation
Defines something called the wave function of a particle or system which has a certain value at every point in space for every given time
These values have no physical meaning, yet the wave function contains all information that can be known about a particle or system
This information can be found by mathematically manipulating the wave function to return real values relating to physical properties
Wave Equation or Schrödinger Equation

11. The wave function can be thought as a picture of how this particle or system acts with time and describes it as fully as possible
The wave function can be in a number of different states at once
A particle may have many different positions, energies, velocities or other physical property at the same time but only measured at one time
“Complex Wave”

12. The Nobel Prize in Physics 1933 was awarded jointly to Erwin Schrödinger and Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac "for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory“ (his complex wave equation)
Nobel Prize

13. RIP 

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