The Nobel Prize in Physics 1933 was awarded jointly to Erwin Schrödinger and Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac " for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory ".
He Got His PhD at the Age of 23 He was a brilliant student and was homeschooled till the age of 11. He then studied at Vienna’ s Akademisches Gymnasium and later at the University of Vienna. In the university he met and was greatly influenced by another physicist, Fritz Hasenöhrl. He got his PhD in physics 1910 at the age of 23 and subsequently established himself as one of the greatest theoretical physicists of all time.
His Cat Was both Alive and Dead at the Same Time One of his famous experiments which he corresponded with Albert Einstein, is the ' Schrodinger ' s cat thought experiment '. The famous thought experiment called Schrödinger’ s cat talks about a cat inside a box with a vile of poison that can be opened by the trigger of a decaying electron. Since we don’ t know when, if at all, the electron has decayed, we can’ t be sure whether the cat is dead or alive. So in a way we can say that the cat is both alive and dead at the same time.
He Wrote His Greatest Work in a Sanatorium The Schrödinger equation changed the way scientists looked at particles and allowed them to predict the motion of the particles through wave mechanics. He wrote this thesis while recovering from tuberculosis in a sanatorium in Arosa. He suffered from tuberculosis many times in his life but it also gave him the time to write his greatest work.