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 ...
Halpern (Edge of the Universe) attempts his own grand unification in this look at the lives, work, and friendship of two giants of physics. He details the romances, careers, and politics of ...
After escaping the Nazis by minutes and then getting smuggled through spy-infested Stockholm, the bomb bay of a British fighter jet might have been a relief to physicist Niels Bohr. His approach to ...
An historian of science from New York University has re-interpreted a correspondence between Albert Einstein and Erwin Schrodinger in which the two scientists argued about the nature of the ...
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For geniuses, even blunders are triumphs in disguise. A dialogue between Albert Einstein and Erwin Schrödinger, pictured, suggests the pair stumbled upon the idea of dark energy 80 years before its ...
Einstein oversight A new review of century-old letters between two of the world's leading physicists suggest dark energy was proving an headache well before it was discovered. The study by Professor ...
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 ...