He later became director of the Institute of Advanced study in Dublin and stayed there until he retired in 1956. It isn’t until we open the box and we observe whether the cat is either alive or dead. Until that time, electrons were only considered to rotate in circular orbits. In 1926, Erwin Schrödinger developed this equation to determine the probability of finding an electron at a certain point in an atom. It is the quantum mechanical model of the atom that started from the Schrödiger equation. Schrödinger put forward the idea that after a while the box remains closed, the cat is both dead and alive. Schrödingers atomic model was developed in 1926. The Geiger counter is set up so that if it detects a decay a hammer will smash a flask of hydrocyanic acid, which would kill the cat. Next to this radioactive source is a Geiger counter (a machine used to detect radioactive decay). Inside the box is a small amount of radioactive material, an amount so small that in an hour perhaps one atom decays, but with an equal probability that one atom doesn’t decay. In the experiment a cat is sealed in a metal box. This experiment demonstrates a paradox of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics. He wrote about it as a discussion point around an article written by Albert Einstein, Boris Podolsky, and Nathan Rosen.
In 1935 Schrödinger created a thought experiment known as Schrödinger’s cat. The wave equation is not the only way to make predictions about quantum mechanical systems, Heisenberg’s matrix mechanics and Feynman’s path integral formulation can also be used.n 1933 Schrödinger Schrödinger won a Nobel Prize for Physics with Paul Dirac for “the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory”. It allowed scientists to calculate the energy levels of electrons in more complicated atoms. Schrdingers method involves partial differential equations.
His groundbreaking wave equation described the movement of electrons by treating them as both particles and waves. In 1925, Erwin Schrdinger and Werner Heisenberg independently developed the new quantum theory. Bohr’s theory worked well for hydrogen atoms, but didn’t work so well for more complicated atoms. Schrödinger’s most important work was creating a mathematical method that correctly described the energy levels in the Bohr atomic model. His father was Austrian and his mother was half English so he grew up speaking both German and English at home.
Schrödinger was born in Vienna, Austria on August 12, 1887.