Erwin Schrödinger provides a new perspective that helps us navigate quantum mechanics. Erwin Schrödinger suggests that “incredibly small groups of atoms, much too small to display exact statistical ...

Not many life stories in physics involve Nazis, illicit sex, a strange cat and the genetic code. Thus, a new biography of the great Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger is always of interest, and with ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I'm an American writer working in fiction and nonfiction. There have been several successful biographies of Erwin Schrödinger, the ...

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, until he ...

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 ...