“Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental. It cannot be accounted for in terms of anything else.”
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Erwin Schrödinger
Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger, sometimes anglicised as Schroedinger or Schrodinger, was an Austrian theoretical physicist who developed fundamental results in quantum theory. In particular, he is recognized for devising the Schrödinger equation, an equation that provides a way to calculate the wave function of a system and how it changes dynamically in time. He coined the term "quantum entanglement" in 1935. Schrödinger shared the 1933 Nobel Prize in Physics with Paul Dirac "for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory".
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Born 12 August 1887 · Died 4 January 1961 · Q9130
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abc.com.py: Un 12 de agosto nacía Erwin Schrödinger, el físico que imaginó al famoso gato cuántico
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Encyclopaedia Britannica: Why did Erwin Schrödinger propose the Schrödinger's cat thought experiment?
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eldia.com.do: El Código de Schrödinger
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moneycontrol.com: Quote of the day by Erwin Schrodinger, "The task is not so much to see what no one has yet seen, but..."
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National Post: Erwin Schrodinger | National Post
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Magdalena Gronau and Martin Gronau published a paper that criticised Moore's biography, writing that their "findings suggest that the widely circulated allegations in the media stem from a combination of unprofessional,
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A defence was published challenging some of these allegations
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Christian Science Monitor: Google Doodle honors Erwin Schrödinger and his paradoxical cat
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International Business Times: Google Doodle of Schrodinger’s Cat Celebrates Erwin Schrodinger’s 126th Birthday [PHOTO]
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Search Engine Land: Google Pays Homage To Nobel Prize Winning Physicist Erwin Schrödinger
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Search Engine Roundtable: Erwin Schrodinger, Austrian Quantum Physicist, Honored On 126th Birthday
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Awarded Prix Paul Doistau-Émile Blutet de l’Information Scientifique (2005).
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Allegations of sexual abuse of several minors emerged
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Died 1961-01-04.
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“Although I think that life may be the result of an accident, I do not think that of consciousness. Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental. It cannot be accounted for in terms of anything else.”
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Awarded Austrian Decoration for Science and Art (1957).
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Awarded Prize of the City of Vienna for Natural Sciences (1956).
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Awarded Erwin Schrödinger Prize (1956).
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With an emeritus professor position, and died of tuberculosis in 1961
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Following the neutralization of Austria in 1955, Schrödinger returned to Vienna to become a professor emeritus at the University of Vienna
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Suggested that the different terms of a superposition evolving under the Schrödinger equation are "not alternatives but all really happen simultaneously"
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Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1949).
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But also retained his Austrian citizenship
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Announced a result, "Affine Field Theory", in a talk at the Royal Irish Academy, but the announcement was criticized by Einstein as "preliminary" and failed to lead to the desired unified theory
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Schrödinger wrote What Is Life
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Schrödinger gave a series of three major lectures at Trinity College Dublin which remain highly influential at the university
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Schrödinger received a personal invitation from Éamon de Valera, Ireland's Taoiseach, to reside in Dublin
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After the Anschluss (German annexation of Austria), Schrödinger had problems in Graz because of his flight from Germany in 1933 and his known opposition to Nazism
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When he immigrated to Ireland in 1938, Schrödinger obtained visas for himself, his wife and March.
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Schrödinger obtained visas for himself, his wife and March
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Won Max Planck Medal (1937).
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After extensive correspondence with Albert Einstein, Schrödinger proposed what is now called the "Schrödinger's cat" thought experiment
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A paper that codified the concept of quantum entanglement
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“Can Quantum-Mechanical Description of Physical Reality Be Considered Complete?”
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Lectured at Princeton University; he was offered a permanent position there, but did not accept it
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Schrödinger had a daughter with Hildegunde March in 1934.
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Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (1933).
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Decided to leave Germany because he strongly disapproved of the Nazis' antisemitism
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Won Matteucci Medal (1927).
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Succeeded Max Planck at the University of Berlin
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Schrödinger moved to the University of Zurich
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Awarded Haitinger Prize (1920).
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Became an assistant to Max Wien at the University of Jena, and in September attained the position of ausserordentlicher Professor (associate professor) at the University of Stuttgart
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On 6 April 1920, Schrödinger married Annemarie (Anny) Bertel (born 3 December 1896).
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Performed his last physical experiment on coherent light and subsequently focused on theoretical studies
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Were checking formulas for capillary pressure in gas bubbles and the study of the properties of soft beta radiation produced by gamma rays striking a metal surface
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At the request of the editors of the Handbook of Electricity and Magnetism, he wrote an article titled Dielectrism
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Awarded Pour le Mérite.
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Awarded Fellow of the American Physical Society.
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Awarded Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order.
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Studied at Akademisches Gymnasium.
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Career landmark: Participated in 5th Solvay Conference on Physics (tournament / event).
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Studied at University of Vienna.
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Studied at University of Oxford.
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Born 1887-08-12.
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