| 1887 |
born August 12 in Vienna,
Austria |
| 1906 |
graduated from Akademisches
Gymnasium and entered the University of Vienna |
| 1910 |
awarded his doctorate with a doctoral
dissertation On the conduction of electricity on
the surface of insulators in moist air |
| 1914 |
first important paper was published
developing ideas of Boltzmann |
| 1915 |
transferred to active duty during WWI in
Hungary and from there he submitted further work for publication |
| 1917 |
assigned to teach a course in meteorology
and published his first results on quantum theory |
| 1918 |
made substantial contributions to colour
theory |
| 1920 |
married Anny Bertel |
| 1921 |
accepted chair of theoretical physics at
Zurich and studied atomic structure |
| 1924 |
began to study quantum statistics |
| 1926 |
published his revolutionary work relating
to wave mechanics and the general theory of relativity in a series
of six papers |
| 1927 |
gave guest lectures at the University of
Wisconsin, Madison and offered a permanent professorship in Berlin
(Planck's successor) and became a colleague of Einstein's |
| 1933 |
awarded Nobel Prize, elected
a fellow of Magdalen College in Oxford and asked for assistance from
Arthur March because he was in love with his wife Hilde |
| 1934 |
gave lecture at Princeton and while there
he was made an offer of a permanent position |
| 1935 |
published a three-part essay on The
present situation in quantum mechanics in
which his famous Schrödinger's cat paradox appears |
| 1936 |
offered the chair of physics at the
University of Edinburgh in Scotland |
| 1944 |
published What is life, which
led to progress in biology |
| 1954 |
published
Nature and the Greeks |
| 1961 |
died January 4 in Vienna,
Austria |
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