| Physical description |
xi, 513 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm |
| Notes |
Includes indexes. |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 483-501. |
| Contents |
1 Family, childhood and youth 7 -- 2 University of Vienna 32 -- 3 Schrodinger at war 79 -- 4 From Vienna to Zurich 111 -- 5 Zurich 145 -- 6 Discovery of wave mechanics 191 -- 7 Berlin 230 -- 8 Exile in Oxford 278 -- 9 Graz 320 -- 10 Wartime Dublin 352 -- 11 Postwar Dublin 415 -- 12 Home to Vienna 455. |
| Summary |
In the first comprehensive biography of Erwin Schrö dinger--a brilliant and charming Austrian, a great scientist, and a man with a passionate interest in people and ideas--the author draws upon recollections of Schrö dinger's friends, family and colleagues, and on contemporary records, letters and diaries. Schrö dinger led a very intense life, both in his research and in the personal realm. This book portrays his life against the backdrop of Europe at a time of change and unrest. His best known scientific work was the discovery of wave mechanics, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1933. In Dublin, he wrote his most famous and influential book What is Life?, which attracted some of the brightest minds of his generation into molecular biology. This highly readable biography of a fascinating and complex man will appeal to anyone interested in the history of our times, and in the life and thought of one of the great men of twentieth-century science. |
| Subject |
Schrödinger, Erwin, 1887-1961.
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Physicists -- Austria -- Biography.
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| ISBN |
052135434X (hardcover) |
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0521437679 (paperback1992 edition) |
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