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Oxford University received him at first with open arms, but he did not fit in well there, in part because of his unconventional personal life – he lived under the same roof with his wife Annemarie and his lover Hilde March, with whom he had a daughter. Erwin Schrödinger, opposed to the anti-Semitism of the Nazis, had just left his post in Germany. It was there that their parallel paths began to separate. With it he provided a very practical way to describe the behaviour of quantum systems such as atoms and molecules, and for this work he received the Nobel in 1933, a year after Heisenberg. In 1926, he developed an alternative formulation to Heisenberg’s original quantum theory (1926), which is summarized in Schrödinger’s wave equation. However, Schrödinger is alone in one thing, perhaps the least known part of his legacy – he was the physicist who inspired a revolution in biology, anticipating important concepts such as the existence of a ‘genetic code’ ten years before the great discovery of Watson and Crick on the structure of DNA.
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Colored portrait of Erwin Schrödinger in 1933, when he received the Nobel.
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In addition, both men carried out very important work in various branches of physics and both flirted with the philosophical interpretations of quantum theory. If Heisenberg is famous for his uncertainty principle, Schrödinger is remembered for his cat. Like the German Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger (1887-1961) of Austria is better known for his impact on popular culture than for his real contribution to science, for which he, like Heisenberg, would receive a Nobel Prize in Physics. Considered the two fathers of quantum mechanics, Heisenberg and Schrödinger have many things in common.