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04/01/1961 Erwin Schrödinger dies

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Quantum Mechanics and the Schrodinger Equation

Erwin R. J. A. Schrödinger is best known for his work in quantum theory. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1933 for his Schrödinger equation. It is a wave-equation that serves as a mathematical model of the movement of waves. He died of tuberculosis at the aged 73 in Vienna.
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