7 nov 1887 anni - Schrodinger

Descrizione:

Date: 1887 - 1961

Country: Austria

Observations/Experiments/Evidence: Schrodingers cat, which is a thought experiment. It illustrated what he saw wrong with the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics applied to everyday objects.

Discoveries/Conclusions: took the Bohr atom model one step further. Schrödinger used mathematical equations to describe the likelihood of finding an electron in a certain position. This atomic model is known as the quantum mechanical model of the atom.

Contribution: The Schrodinger equation, which is the fundamental equation in physics for describing quantum mechanical behavior. It is also often called the Schrodinger wave equation, and it is a partial differential equation that describes how the wave function of a physical system evolves over time.