In 1933, the Nobel Prize Foundation awarded the physics prize jointly to Dr. Erwin Schrödinger and Dr. Paul Dirac for their development of techniques to solve problems in the burgeoning field of atomic physics. Schrödinger established the system of wave mechanics to study the motion within atoms and molecules. The mathematical forms for the wave properties of matter directly led to solutions as well as further insights in modern atomic physics.
The following images show some of the places where Schrödinger (1887–1961) spent time in his work- and home-life: traces he left behind in Vienna. He and his wife are buried in the Tirolean town of Alpbach.
University of Vienna (1.)
Next to the Ringstraße is the University of Vienna main building by Heinrich Ferstel and inaugurated in 1884.
Erwin’s youthful gaze is part of the university’s display of its Nobel Prize laureates.
Arkadenhof (arcade courtyard).
Memorial statue in Arkadenhof: Erwin Schrödinger’s equation in quantum mechanics is what Newton’s equation “F = ma” is to classical mechanics.
(2nd) Institute of Physics (9.)
Former location of the (second) Physics Institute, 1875 to 1913.
Memorial plaque on the exterior wall, in recognition of some of the scientists who once worked at the Physics Institute, including Stefan, Boltzmann, Meyer, Meitner, Hess, and Schrödinger.
Schrödinger Residence (9.)
Building address Pasteurgasse 4, where Schrödinger lived for a number of years, near the Strudlhofstiege staircase.
Memorial plaque at Pasteurgasse 4: “University of Vienna professor, physicist, and Nobel Prize laureate Erwin Schrödinger lived in this building from 1956 to 1961.”
I made all photos above with an iPhone15 on 6 Jul 2024. This post composed with Jetpack for iOS appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com as https://wp.me/p1BIdT-t9q.
Yes, I think that’s very likely. Schrödinger would have been first studying then working at the University of Vienna from 1906 until the outbreak of war in 1914. Your grandparents, Olga and Felix, both received their doctoral degrees in physics in 1903, and married each other in 1908. They clearly stayed in Vienna because in 1920, Felix became professor of experimental physics at the University of Vienna. By this time, Olga had set up various kinds of schools for young women, and taught in at least one of the academically-minded “Gymnasium”. The time periods do seem to fit nicely, and certainly in the sense they all would have been familiar with each other, at least by name, because Felix Ehrenhaft and Erwin Schrödinger should have been in the same “department of physics” at the University of Vienna from 1906 to 1914.
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He must have known my grand parents.
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Hello, Mrs. Albert.
Yes, I think that’s very likely. Schrödinger would have been first studying then working at the University of Vienna from 1906 until the outbreak of war in 1914. Your grandparents, Olga and Felix, both received their doctoral degrees in physics in 1903, and married each other in 1908. They clearly stayed in Vienna because in 1920, Felix became professor of experimental physics at the University of Vienna. By this time, Olga had set up various kinds of schools for young women, and taught in at least one of the academically-minded “Gymnasium”. The time periods do seem to fit nicely, and certainly in the sense they all would have been familiar with each other, at least by name, because Felix Ehrenhaft and Erwin Schrödinger should have been in the same “department of physics” at the University of Vienna from 1906 to 1914.
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