Erwin Schrödinger
1887 – 1961 · Austria · Physics, Biology
Nobel Prize in Physics, 1933
Wave mechanics and What Is Life?, which inspired the DNA hunters.
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Who shaped Erwin Schrödinger, and who they shaped
Inherited from1
- Albert Einstein
1879 – 1955 · Physics
The wave equation follows de Broglie and Einstein's insistence on wave–particle duality.
Passed the work to1
- Francis Crick
1916 – 2004 · Biology
What Is Life? sent Crick from physics to the molecular basis of heredity.
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- 1.Nobel Prize record — Nobel Prize in Physics, 1933
The Nobel Foundation · Primary source
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