Erwin Schrodinger (1887-1961), an Austrian theoretical physicist,
published (1926) four papers that laid the
foundation of the wave-mechanics approach to quantum theory and
set forth his now-famous wave equation.
In 1933 he shared the
Nobel Prize for physics with Paul DIRAC for his contributions to
atomic theory.
He also worked on problems of general relativity and cosmology
and on a unified field theory. Late in his life Schrodinger
studied the foundations of physics and their implications for
philosophy.