In 1935, Austrian-born physicist Erwin Schrödinger described a thought experiment that magnified a glaring problem at the heart of quantum mechanics. To this day, the problem remains, summed up ...

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First devised by physicist Erwin Schrödinger in 1925, his thought experiment evocatively describes the weird rules of the quantum world by imagining a cat placed inside an opaque box with a ...

fishg/iStock / Getty Images Plus First proposed in 1935 by the Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger, "Schrödinger's cat" was designed to highlight the physicist's concerns with one ...

Erwin Schrödinger was the only son of well-educated parents. His father owned an oil cloth factory and was an amateur painter and botanist. Erwin was taught at home, by tutors and parents ...

Schrödinger's cat,' a thought experiment in which a cat placed in a box is considered to be alive or dead, was proposed by Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger in the early 20th century.

There have been several successful biographies of Erwin Schrödinger, the Nobel Prize winning scientist who contributed impressively to quantum physics, chemistry, electrodynamics, molecular ...

Devised in 1935 by the Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger, this thought experiment was designed to shine a spotlight on the difficulty with interpreting quantum theory. Quantum theory is very ...

Over the coming decades, Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger and others completely restructured the standard picture of reality. Rethinking reality: Is the entire ...

In 1935, Austrian-born physicist Erwin Schrödinger described a thought experiment that magnified a glaring problem at the heart of quantum mechanics. To this day, the problem remains, summed up by ...