Erwin Schrödinger was the only son of well-educated parents. His father owned an oil cloth factory and was an amateur painter and botanist. Erwin was taught at home, by tutors and parents, until he ...

Schrödinger proposed that a hypothetical cat in a sealed box must be considered both alive and dead simultaneously until ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Internet search giant Google is tipping its hat to Erwin Schrödinger in a Google Doodle today, the 126th anniversary of the physicist’s birth. The static Google Doodle – a stylised Google logo on ...

Today’s Google logo marks the 126th birthday of Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger. Awarded the Nobel Prize in physics in 1933 while at the University of Oxford in England, Schrödinger is considered ...

Inside a box, there is a cat. It may be dead or it may be alive, because also in that small space is a vial of poisonous gas that has a 50/50 chance of releasing its destruction upon kitty. But no one ...

Since Erwin Schroedinger's famous 1935 cat thought experiment, physicists around the globe have tried to create large scale systems to test how the rules of quantum mechanics apply to everyday objects ...

For the first time, the quantum behavior of molecules consisting of more than 400 atoms was demonstrated by scientists. The research also sheds new light on an important aspect of the famous thought ...

The physicist Hermann Weyl noted that Erwin Schrödinger was at his most inspired when he was in the throes of a passionate affair. In truth, Schrödinger was a serial seducer who would convince himself ...

Schrödinger, born in Vienna in 1887, won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1933 for an equation of wave mechanics which was fundamental to modern quantum theory. Today the ‘o’s of Google have been ...