The physicist Hermann Weyl noted that Erwin Schrödinger was at his most inspired when he was in the throes of a passionate affair. In truth, Schrödinger was a serial seducer who would convince himself ...

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 ...

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 ...

We got a quick overview of one of the most enduring paradox questions in quantum theory: Schrodinger’s cat. Is it alive? Is it dead? Both, or neither. It may just be sleeping. Austrian physicist Erwin ...

In the winter of 1943, the physicist Erwin Schrödinger invited the Dublin public to hear him deliver a series of lectures he described as “difficult” and that “could not be termed popular”. Some 400 ...

A cat is in a sealed box. It is both alive and dead, at least until you open the lid. Inside the sealed chamber also sits a vial of poison. This vial could be triggered to break by a tiny amount 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 ...