Erwin Schrödinger Birthday, Date of Birth

Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger ( SHROH-ding-er, German: [ˈʃʁøːdɪŋɐ] ; 12 August 1887 – 4 January 1961), sometimes written as Schroedinger or Schrodinger, was an Austrian-Irish theoretical physicist who developed fundamental results in quantum theory. In particular, he is recognized for postulating the Schrödinger equation, an equation that provides a way to calculate the wave function of a system and how it changes dynamically in time. Schrödinger coined the term "quantum entanglement" in 1935.

In addition, he wrote many works on various aspects of physics: statistical mechanics and thermodynamics, physics of dielectrics, color theory, electrodynamics, general relativity, and cosmology, and he made several attempts to construct a unified field theory. In his book What Is Life? Schrödinger addressed the problems of genetics, looking at the phenomenon of life from the point of view of physics. He also paid great attention to the philosophical aspects of science, ancient, and oriental philosophical concepts, ethics, and religion. He also wrote on philosophy and theoretical biology. In popular culture, he is best known for his "Schrödinger's cat" thought experiment.

Spending most of his life as an academic with positions at various universities, Schrödinger, along with Paul Dirac, won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1933 for his work on quantum mechanics, the same year he left Germany due to his opposition to Nazism. In his personal life, he lived with both his wife and his mistress which may have led to problems causing him to leave his position at Oxford. Subsequently, until 1938, he had a position in Graz, Austria, until the Nazi takeover when he fled, finally finding a long-term arrangement in Dublin, Ireland, where he remained until retirement in 1955, and where he allegedly sexually abused several minors.

Some people who share this birthday:

Tyson Fury (boxer, born August 12, 1988)
Cara Delevingne (actor, film actor, singer, supermodel, born August 12, 1992)
George Soros (banker, business magnate, economist, entrepreneur, financier, investor, philanthropist, philosopher, trader, writer, born August 12, 1930)
Mario Balotelli (association football player, born August 12, 1990)
Casey Affleck (actor, film actor, film director, film editor, film producer, screenwriter, stage actor, television actor, voice actor, born August 12, 1975)
George IV of the United Kingdom (art collector, patron of the arts, politician, ruler, born August 12, 1762)
John Cazale (actor, character actor, film actor, stage actor, television actor, born August 12, 1935)
LaKeith Stanfield (actor, film actor, poet, rapper, stage actor, television actor, born August 12, 1991)
Pete Sampras (tennis player, born August 12, 1971)
Sara Ali Khan (actor, born August 12, 1995)
François Hollande (statesperson, born August 12, 1954)
Sayyeshaa (actor, film actor, born August 12, 1997)
Erwin Schrödinger (academic, mathematician, non-fiction writer, physicist, professor, theoretical physicist, born August 12, 1887)
Khris Middleton (basketball player, born August 12, 1991)
Klaas-Jan Huntelaar (association football player, born August 12, 1983)
Peter Krause (actor, director, film actor, television actor, born August 12, 1965)
Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia (aristocrat, born August 12, 1904)
Cantinflas (actor, comedian, film actor, military personnel, musician, screenwriter, stage actor, television actor, born August 12, 1911)
Bruce Greenwood (actor, film actor, television actor, voice actor, born August 12, 1956)
Helena Blavatsky (editor, journalist, occultist, philosopher, theosophist, writer, born August 12, 1831)
Meryem Uzerli (actor, film actor, born August 12, 1983)
Djibril Cissé (association football player, born August 12, 1981)
Maggie Lawson (actor, film actor, television actor, born August 12, 1980)
John Derek (cinematographer, film actor, film director, film producer, photographer, screenwriter, television actor, born August 12, 1926)
Wissam Ben Yedder (association football player, born August 12, 1990)
George Hamilton (actor, film actor, film director, film producer, television actor, born August 12, 1939)
Hidetaka Yoshioka (actor, child actor, singer-songwriter, born August 12, 1970)
Sirikit (environmentalist, military officer, pianist, politician, social worker, statesperson, writer, born August 12, 1932)
Klara Hitler (domestic worker, born August 12, 1860)
Jasper Liu (actor, film actor, model, singer, television actor, born August 12, 1986)
Rebecca Gayheart (film actor, film director, model, stage actor, television actor, born August 12, 1971)
Hannah Quinlivan (actor, film actor, model, television actor, television presenter, born August 12, 1993)
Mohammed Deif (military personnel, partisan, born August 12, 1965)
Dominique Swain (actor, film actor, television actor, born August 12, 1980)
Yvette Nicole Brown (actor, film actor, television actor, voice actor, born August 12, 1971)
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq (military officer, politician, born August 12, 1924)
Tokugawa Iemitsu (politician, born August 12, 1604)
Muqtada al-Sadr (politician, born August 12, 1973)
Cecil B. DeMille (actor, film actor, film director, film editor, film producer, playwright, radio personality, screenwriter, stage actor, theatrical director, born August 12, 1881)
Pat Metheny (composer, guitarist, jazz guitarist, jazz musician, music pedagogue, musician, recording artist, songwriter, born August 12, 1954)
Mohammad Hatta (politician, born August 12, 1902)
Siva (film director, born August 12, 1977)
Vikram Sarabhai (engineer, physicist, born August 12, 1919)
Takanohana Kōji (rikishi, born August 12, 1972)
Amanda Redman (actor, film actor, born August 12, 1957)
Kana Asumi (seiyū, singer, born August 12, 1983)
Tony West (lawyer, born August 12, 1965)
Richard Reid (terrorist, born August 12, 1974)
Fernando Collor de Mello (politician, writer, born August 12, 1949)
Kōji Yusa (seiyū, born August 12, 1968)
Bex Taylor-Klaus (actor, film actor, television actor, born August 12, 1994)
Park Yong-ha (actor, film actor, singer, television actor, born August 12, 1977)
Tom Cleverley (association football player, born August 12, 1989)
Iris Berben (film actor, stage actor, voice actor, born August 12, 1950)
Robert Makłowicz (journalist, television producer, traveler, writer, born August 12, 1963)
Jim Beaver (actor, film actor, film director, film producer, playwright, stage actor, television actor, writer, born August 12, 1950)
Sam J. Jones (actor, film actor, film producer, model, television actor, born August 12, 1954)
Julio Urías (baseball player, born August 12, 1996)
Buck Owens (composer, country singer, guitarist, recording artist, singer-songwriter, born August 12, 1929)
Madhavi (actor, born August 12, 1962)
Alessandra Amoroso (singer, born August 12, 1986)
Ron Mael (keyboardist, songwriter, born August 12, 1945)
Elisabetta Casellati (politician, born August 12, 1946)
Jose Ramírez (boxer, born August 12, 1992)
Chen Kaige (actor, film director, film producer, screenwriter, writer, born August 12, 1952)
Antoine Walker (basketball player, born August 12, 1976)
Sitaram Yechury (politician, born August 12, 1952)
Dana Ivey (actor, film actor, stage actor, television actor, born August 12, 1941)
Muhammad Ahmad ibn ʿAbdallah (military leader, politician, resistance fighter, slave trader, theologian, born August 12, 1844)
Marian Rivera (actor, model, recording artist, born August 12, 1984)
Heintje Simons (actor, film actor, recording artist, singer, born August 12, 1955)
Jane Wyatt (actor, film actor, stage actor, television actor, born August 12, 1910)
Porter Wagoner (actor, musician, recording artist, singer, singer-songwriter, born August 12, 1927)
Kōji Kitao (mixed martial arts fighter, professional wrestler, rikishi, born August 12, 1963)
Martin Seligman (bridge player, psychologist, university teacher, writer, born August 12, 1942)
John Bluthal (actor, screenwriter, stage actor, television actor, born August 12, 1929)
William Goldman (playwright, screenwriter, writer, born August 12, 1931)
Mitsuru Matsuoka (actor, singer-songwriter, born August 12, 1971)
Osmany Juantorena (beach volleyball player, volleyball player, born August 12, 1985)
Del the Funky Homosapien (rapper, record producer, singer, songwriter, born August 12, 1972)
Ewa Farna (actor, dancer, model, recording artist, singer, television personality, born August 12, 1993)
Charlie Whiting (race director, referee, sports executive, born August 12, 1952)
Imani Hakim (actor, film actor, television actor, born August 12, 1993)
Choi Yu-jin (singer, born August 12, 1996)
Tsutomu Itō (actor, businessperson, owarai tarento, seiyū, tarento, born August 12, 1966)
Joe Besser (actor, comedian, film actor, musician, television actor, voice actor, born August 12, 1907)
Leah Pipes (actor, film actor, television actor, born August 12, 1988)
Teddi Siddall (actor, film actor, television actor, born August 12, 1959)
Laurent Fignon (sport cyclist, writer, born August 12, 1960)
Plaxico Burress (American football player, born August 12, 1977)
Toshiki Kadomatsu (guitarist, record producer, recording artist, singer-songwriter, born August 12, 1960)
Jean Nouvel (architect, teacher, born August 12, 1945)
Roberto D'Aversa (association football manager, association football player, born August 12, 1975)
Marion Lorne (actor, film actor, stage actor, television actor, born August 12, 1883)
Jack Scanlon (actor, film actor, television actor, born August 12, 1998)
Wallace Souza (journalist, politician, television presenter, born August 12, 1958)
Teji Bachchan (activist, human rights activist, born August 12, 1914)
Akimi Yoshida (illustrator, mangaka, writer, born August 12, 1956)
CY Leung (chartered surveyor, justice of the peace, politician, born August 12, 1954)
Karl Denke (organist, serial killer, born August 12, 1860)
Elnaz Habibi (actor, born August 12, 1988)
Guillermo Cano Isaza (journalist, politician, born August 12, 1925)
Peter Weck (film actor, film director, screenwriter, stage actor, television actor, television director, born August 12, 1930)
Takanori Jinnai (actor, film director, musician, born August 12, 1958)
Luna (actor, dancer, film actor, model, recording artist, singer, born August 12, 1993)
Prince Achileas-Andreas of Greece and Denmark (actor, aristocrat, born August 12, 2000)
Empress Dowager Ci'an (politician, born August 12, 1837)
Mike Gundy (American football player, head coach, born August 12, 1967)
Vasanth (actor, film director, born August 12, 1963)
Kang Sang-jung (political scientist, born August 12, 1950)
Miss Cleo (actor, psychic, born August 12, 1962)
Naresh Trehan (surgeon, born August 12, 1946)
Justin Gaston (actor, composer, guitarist, model, screenwriter, singer, television actor, born August 12, 1988)
Sir Mix-a-Lot (actor, rapper, record producer, singer-songwriter, songwriter, born August 12, 1963)
Natalie Mendoza (actor, dancer, film actor, singer, born August 12, 1978)
Selina Cadell (actor, film actor, born August 12, 1953)
Txiki Begiristain (association football player, born August 12, 1964)
Christy Mathewson (American football player, baseball player, born August 12, 1880)
Julien Lepers (radio personality, singer-songwriter, television presenter, born August 12, 1949)
Michael Ian Black (actor, film director, podcaster, screenwriter, television actor, born August 12, 1971)
Edwin Tong (lawyer, politician, born August 12, 1969)
Hayley Wickenheiser (ice hockey player, softball player, born August 12, 1978)
Samuel Fuller (actor, film director, film producer, model, novelist, screenwriter, born August 12, 1912)
Paolo Vanoli (association football player, born August 12, 1972)
Andy Hui (actor, film actor, singer, television actor, born August 12, 1967)
Isaach de Bankolé (actor, film actor, born August 12, 1957)
Dewayne Dedmon (basketball player, born August 12, 1989)
Siddaramaiah (politician, born August 12, 1948)
Keith Murdoch (businessperson, war correspondent, born August 12, 1885)
Klaus Toppmöller (association football manager, association football player, born August 12, 1951)
Jesper Grønkjær (association football player, born August 12, 1977)
Clara Nunes (recording artist, singer, born August 12, 1942)
Antoine-Augustin Parmentier (agronomist, botanist, dietitian, pharmacist, physician, royal censor, born August 12, 1737)
Jessica Ginkel (actor, film actor, born August 12, 1980)
Karl Stefanovic (journalist, television presenter, born August 12, 1974)
Hans Urs von Balthasar (cardinal, born August 12, 1905)
Guy Gibson (aircraft pilot, military personnel, born August 12, 1918)
Yua Aida (AV idol, glamour model, pornographic actor, born August 12, 1984)
Noriko Awaya (singer, born August 12, 1907)
Olle Ljungström (guitarist, musician, singer, born August 12, 1961)
Chandini Tamilarasan (actor, born August 12, 1992)
Golab Adineh (actor, born August 12, 1953)
Brent Sexton (actor, film actor, stage actor, television actor, born August 12, 1967)
Kumiko Takeda (actor, model, born August 12, 1968)
Anthony Swofford (autobiographer, novelist, writer, born August 12, 1970)
Francesco Morini (association football player, born August 12, 1944)
Yusof bin Ishak (journalist, politician, born August 12, 1910)
Yasuhide Uno (businessperson, born August 12, 1963)
Robert Southey (biographer, historian, poet, politician, translator, writer, born August 12, 1774)
Dallin H. Oaks (judge, lawyer, religious leader, university teacher, writer, born August 12, 1932)