Erwin Schrödinger, an Austrian born chemist, gained his famed for his contributions to quantum mechanics. Some of his contributions to chemistry and quantum mechanics were his books describing his techniques and basic info behind his work, his paradox, Schrodinger’s cat, which created a lot of new discoveries in chemistry, and his equation that changed how many people viewed the atom and its electrons. At at young age, Schrodinger was strongly influenced by the philosophy of Austrian philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer (Mastin, Luke. "Erwin Schrödinger - Important Scientists - The Physics of the Universe.").
Born on August 12, 1887, Erwin Schrodinger grew up in Vienna and attended the Akademisches Gymnasium High School in his teenage years and …show more content…
Through math, he was able to describe that waves can be described as the electrons in an atom and the quantum state of a system. Schrodinger began searching for an equation in 1925 after reading a paper written by Albert Einstein and Louis de Broglie expressing that matter could both possess the properties of a wave and a particle at the same time. Schrodinger built off Bohr’s model of atom by creating the electron cloud model (G, Molly. "Timeline of the Atom."). The electron cloud model represents the possible locations of where an electron might be in the atom. This model contains a variety of orbitals; s, p, d, and f. The s orbital is able to contain 2 electrons, the p orbital can hold 6, the d orbital had hold 10 and the p orbital can hold 14. All of these orbitals are possible locations of where the electron might lie within the atom and Schrodinger used an equation to calculate all this information. Orbitals were known to be a wave function describing the state of a single electron in an atom.
Along with the equation, he published a series of four papers in the “Annalen der Physik” journal. These papers were recognized as having a great significance by the physics community and described how his equation related to physics and chemistry. These papers included:
Wave mechanics, also known as the Schrödinger Equation. The equation describes how the quantum state of a physical system changes …show more content…
The Physical Aspect of the Living Cell in 1944 which persuaded physicists to take an interest in biology and its problems. It also made young people to move into molecular biology and James Watson, a discoverer of the structure and function of DNA, was fascinated by the work published by Schödinger. In 1927, he succeeded Max Planck at the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin Germany and his career seemed to be thriving throughout Germany. However in 1933 when Adolf Hitler began to seize power in Germany, Schrodinger decided to move to Oxford, England as a protest against the Nazis regime. Soon after moving, he received the 1933 Nobel Prize in Physics along with Paul Dirac for the discovery of “new productive forms of atomic theory.” Shortly after living in Oxford, things did not go well for him at the time and he eventually took a position back in Austria at the University of Graz in 1936. While taking many opportunities from different countries, Schrodinger was able to take time to spend with Albert Einstein and as a result, he proposed the paradox known as “Schrodinger’s Cat” in 1935. The paradox was to help illustrate the problem of the “Copenhagen Interpretation” of quantum mechanics, first derived by Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg. The paradox created the scenario of a cat was in a sealed box for approximately an hour and the cat’s life or death depended on the state of a subatomic particle. Until the box
Born on August 12, 1887, Erwin Schrodinger grew up in Vienna and attended the Akademisches Gymnasium High School in his teenage years and …show more content…
Through math, he was able to describe that waves can be described as the electrons in an atom and the quantum state of a system. Schrodinger began searching for an equation in 1925 after reading a paper written by Albert Einstein and Louis de Broglie expressing that matter could both possess the properties of a wave and a particle at the same time. Schrodinger built off Bohr’s model of atom by creating the electron cloud model (G, Molly. "Timeline of the Atom."). The electron cloud model represents the possible locations of where an electron might be in the atom. This model contains a variety of orbitals; s, p, d, and f. The s orbital is able to contain 2 electrons, the p orbital can hold 6, the d orbital had hold 10 and the p orbital can hold 14. All of these orbitals are possible locations of where the electron might lie within the atom and Schrodinger used an equation to calculate all this information. Orbitals were known to be a wave function describing the state of a single electron in an atom.
Along with the equation, he published a series of four papers in the “Annalen der Physik” journal. These papers were recognized as having a great significance by the physics community and described how his equation related to physics and chemistry. These papers included:
Wave mechanics, also known as the Schrödinger Equation. The equation describes how the quantum state of a physical system changes …show more content…
The Physical Aspect of the Living Cell in 1944 which persuaded physicists to take an interest in biology and its problems. It also made young people to move into molecular biology and James Watson, a discoverer of the structure and function of DNA, was fascinated by the work published by Schödinger. In 1927, he succeeded Max Planck at the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin Germany and his career seemed to be thriving throughout Germany. However in 1933 when Adolf Hitler began to seize power in Germany, Schrodinger decided to move to Oxford, England as a protest against the Nazis regime. Soon after moving, he received the 1933 Nobel Prize in Physics along with Paul Dirac for the discovery of “new productive forms of atomic theory.” Shortly after living in Oxford, things did not go well for him at the time and he eventually took a position back in Austria at the University of Graz in 1936. While taking many opportunities from different countries, Schrodinger was able to take time to spend with Albert Einstein and as a result, he proposed the paradox known as “Schrodinger’s Cat” in 1935. The paradox was to help illustrate the problem of the “Copenhagen Interpretation” of quantum mechanics, first derived by Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg. The paradox created the scenario of a cat was in a sealed box for approximately an hour and the cat’s life or death depended on the state of a subatomic particle. Until the box