They had become engaged in 1919 and Anny had come to work as a secretary in Vienna on a monthly salary which was more than Schrödinger's annual income. On the strength of his work he was offered an associate professorship at Vienna in January 1920 but by this time he wished to marry Anny Bertel. He had also made important contributions to the kinetic theory of solids, studying the dynamics of crystal lattices. Schrödinger had worked at Vienna on radioactivity, proving the statistical nature of radioactive decay. From 1918 to 1920 he made substantial contributions to the theory of colour vision. After the end of the war he continued working at Vienna. He was able to continue research and it was at this time that he published his first results on quantum theory.

In the spring of 1917 Schrödinger was sent back to Vienna and assigned to teach a course in meteorology. After being sent back to the Italian front, Schrödinger received a citation for outstanding service commanding a battery during a battle. In 1915 he was transferred to duty in Hungary and from there he submitted further papers for publication. His time of active service was not wasted as far as research was concerned, however, for he continued his theoretical work, submitting another paper from his position on the Italian front. However, with the outbreak of World War I, Schrödinger received orders to take up duty on the Italian border.

In 1914 Schrödinger's first important paper was published developing ideas of Boltzmann. Schrödinger's early scientific work was inhibited by the absence of a group of first-class theoreticians in Vienna, against whom he could sharpen his skills by daily argument and mutual criticism. That it was not an outstanding piece of work is shown by the fact that the committee was not unanimous in recommending him for the degree. Having completed the work for his habilitation, he was awarded the degree on 1 September 1914. He later said that his experiences conducting experiments proved an invaluable asset to his theoretical work since it gave him a practical philosophical framework in which to set his theoretical ideas. Then he was appointed to an assistantship at Vienna but, rather surprisingly, in experimental physics rather than theoretical physics. After this he undertook voluntary military service in the fortress artillery. On, Schrödinger was awarded his doctorate for the dissertation On the conduction of electricity on the surface of insulators in moist air. He also studied projective geometry, algebraic curves and continuous groups in lectures given by Gustav Kohn. In mathematics he was taught calculus and algebra by Franz Mertens, function theory, differential equations and mathematical statistics by Wilhelm Wirtinger (whom he found uninspiring as a lecturer ). It was Fritz Hasenöhrl's lectures on theoretical physics which had the greatest influence on Schrödinger. In theoretical physics he studied analytical mechanics, applications of partial differential equations to dynamics, eigenvalue problems, Maxwell's equations and electromagnetic theory, optics, thermodynamics, and statistical mechanics. Schrödinger graduated from the Akademisches Gymnasium in 1906 and, in that year, entered the University of Vienna. it was possible for to call Schrödinger immediately to the blackboard and to set him problems, which he solved with playful facility. In there is the following quotation from a student in Schrödinger's class at school:-Įspecially in physics and mathematics, Schrödinger had a gift for understanding that allowed him, without any homework, immediately and directly to comprehend all the material during the class hours and to apply it. Of the German poets, I loved especially the dramatists, but hated the pedantic dissection of their works. I was a good student in all subjects, loved mathematics and physics, but also the strict logic of the ancient grammars, hated only memorising incidental dates and facts. He wrote later about his time at the Gymnasium:. He then entered the Akademisches Gymnasium in the autumn of 1898, rather later than was usual since he spent a long holiday in England around the time he might have entered the school.

He was not sent to elementary school, but received lessons at home from a private tutor up to the age of ten. Schrödinger learnt English and German almost at the same time due to the fact that both were spoken in the household. Erwin's mother, Emily Bauer, was half English, this side of the family coming from Leamington Spa, and half Austrian with her father coming from Vienna. Biography Erwin Schrödinger's father, Rudolf Schrödinger, ran a small linoleum factory which he had inherited from his own father.

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