The theory of quantum mechanics has transformed daily life since being proposed a century ago, yet how it works remains a ...

When a German physicist returned from a health retreat 100 years ago, his ideas sparked a debate about reality, and gave rise ...

It’s the weirdest thing: quantum theory works incredibly well in practice. It powers devices ranging from MRI machines to lasers and the very computer you’re reading this on. But even after 100 years, ...

Google has celebrated the 126th birth anniversary of Erwin Schrödinger, the Nobel prize-winning Austrian quantum physicist, perhaps most famous for the mind experiment known as Schrödinger’s Cat.

The Austrian Academy of Sciences founded the Erwin Schrödinger Prize in 1956, giving the inaugural award to its namesake. Schrödinger also has a large crater located on the dark side of the moon ...

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 ...

Erwin Schrödinger and the Quantum Revolution by John Gribbin 323pp, Bantam Press t £23 (PLUS £1.25 p&p) Buy now from Telegraph Books (RRP £25, ebook £22.39) ...

'Poor things," wrote the Nobel-winning physicist Erwin Schrödinger of the many women he had had as lovers: "They have provided for my life's happiness and their own distress. Such is life." ...