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Additional Reading

William T. Scott, Erwin Schrödinger: An Introduction to His Writings (1967), is a good critical study of Schrödinger and his works. Schrödinger’s life and career are chronicled in Walter Moore, Schrödinger: Life and Thought (1989), also published in an abridged version, A Life of Erwin Schrödinger (1994); and John Gribbin, Erwin Schrödinger and the Quantum Revolution (2013). C.W. Kilmister (ed.), Schrödinger: Centenary Celebration of a Polymath (1987), a set of papers, explores Schrödinger’s scientific legacy.

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Add new Web site: Academia - Erwin Schrödinger: an approach of mind and matter inspired from the Upanishads and from Buddhism (PDF). Dec 13, 2024
Anniversary information added. Aug 08, 2024
First paragraph modernization. Apr 05, 2024
Add new Web site: Florida State University - Molecular Expressions - Erwin Schrödinger. Apr 01, 2024
Add new Web site: Nature - The rich legacy of Erwin Schrodinger. Feb 20, 2024
Anniversary information added. Jan 01, 2024
Add new Web site: The MY HERO Project - Biography of Erwin Schrödinger. Nov 17, 2023
Add new Web site: Dictionary of Irish Biography - Biography of Erwin Schrödinger. Mar 13, 2023
Add new Web site: Physics World - Erwin Schrödinger: why did he fail at Oxford? Dec 23, 2022
Add new Web site: American Physical Society - Circa March 1935: Schroedinger's Paradoxical Cat. Oct 28, 2022
Media added. May 28, 2021
Add new Web site: Linda Hall Library - Erwin Schrodinger. Feb 22, 2021
Corrected display issue. Jan 11, 2021
Top Questions updated. Aug 30, 2019
Replaced photograph. Apr 24, 2018
Add new Web site: Famous Scientists - Biography of Erwin Schrodinger. Apr 18, 2017
Added material about Schrödinger's cat. Feb 18, 2016
Added Erwin Schrödinger and the Quantum Revolution by John Gribbin to bibliography. Feb 18, 2016
Added video about Schrödinger's cat. Feb 18, 2016
Add new Web site: Vigyan Prasar - Erwin Schrodinger. Jun 27, 2014
Add new Web site: PBS - People and Discoveries - A Science Odyssey - Biography of Erwin Schrodinger. Jun 26, 2014
Add new Web site: Science Museum - Ashtonishing Science Spectacular Museum - Biography of Erwin Schrödinger. Apr 12, 2013
Added new Web site: MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive - Biography of Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger.
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