On August 12, 1887, Erwin Schrödinger, the Austrian physicist and Nobel laureate, best known for his mathematical studies of the wave mechanics of orbiting electrons, was born in Vienna (d. 1961).
Encyclopaedia Britannica article on Erwin Schrodinger; Nobel Lectures, Physics 1922-1941, "Erwin Schrödinger Biography" from NobelPrize.org; Vallabhan, C. P. Girija, "Indian influences ...
Schrödinger's cat is a thought experiment, often described as a paradox, devised by Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger in 1935. It illustrates what he saw as the problem of the ...