Born in Vienna, Erwin Schr\u00F6dinger studies physics there and receives his doctorate in 1910. He is appointed professor at the University of Zurich in 1921 and in 1927 becomes Planck\u2019s successor in Berlin.
Following up on de Broglie\u2019s idea of material waves in winter 1925/26 Schr\u00F6dinger develops his wave mechanics to describe atomic processes \u2013 in contrast to Heisenberg-Born matrix mechanics. The Schr\u00F6dinger equation
quickly becomes accepted as the preferred means of representing quantum mechanics and he receives the Nobel Prize in 1933 for this work. He has less success with his realistic analysis of wave functions. In contrast, he never gets used to the idea of Born\u2019s statistical interpretations of the same.
Schr\u00F6dinger leaves Germany in 1933. In 1939, he is appointed director of the newly founded institute for Advanced Studies in Dublin. He returns to his native Austria in 1956.
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