Erwin Schrödinger

Born:	08-12-1887
Faculty:	Philosophical School
Category:	Expelled teacher

Erwin SCHRÖDINGER (born on August 12th, 1887 in Vienna, died on January 4th, 1961 in Alpbach in Tirol) was Hon.-Prof. for Physik (Theoretische Physik) at the Philosophical School of the University of Vienna. He was persecuted in times of Nazism because of his political orientation lost his position and was thrown out of the university in 1938. He was able to emigrate to Dublin/Ireland. He returned to Austria in 1958.

Lit.: Schrödinger Collection at the Central Library for Physics, University of Vienna; DEICHMANN 2001, 154f, 189, 510; Gedenkbuch für die Opfer des Nationalsozialismus an der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.

Herbert Posch