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 .