erwin shrodinger
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Around 1926, Ewin Shrodinger had the idea of: Why not go all the way with particle waves and try to form a model of the atom on that basis? He worked with a theory kind of like an harmonic theory for a violin string that the vibrations traveled in circles. Schrodinger's wave mechanics did not question the makeup of the waves but he had to call it something so he gave it a symbol. Erwin won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1933, for his 1926 introduction of Schrodinger’s wave, which is still the most widely used piece of mathematics in modern quantum theory. This equation governs how electrons behave within the hydrogen atom. He also wrote existential questions of life. He introduced his famous “Schrodinger’s cat” paradox in 1935 paper, “The present situation in quantum mechanics.” This basically tells the story of a cat sharing a closed box with a booby trap that contained a vial of cyanide gas, a small but deadly quantity of radioactive material, and a radiation detector. So as long as the box remained closed scientists cannot observe whether the cat is dead because if the box was opened, the sensor would go off and the cat would be killed. This explains that the quantum level observations of position with regard to momentum are indeed as indeterminate as the cat’s state of life or death. He ended up at Austria’s University of Graz- which he fled because it came the University that Hitler attended.