His 1944 book What is Life? introduced the term "negentropy" and discussed the idea of an "aperiodic crystal" which contained genetic information, a concept which later inspired Watson and Crick to research the structure of DNA. In his 1926 paper, Quantization as an Eigenvalue Problem, he published an equation describing the time- and space-dependence of quantum mechanical systems, using a model of the atom as waves rather than particles. Later, he rejected the mainstream definition of wave-particle duality altogether, promoting the wave concept alone. This led him to propose a (*) thought experiment to demonstrate the absurdity of wavefunction collapse. FTP, name this Austrian-Irish physicist whose namesake thought experiment involves a vial of poison, a decaying atom, and a cat.
His 1944 book What is Life? introduced the term "negentropy" and discussed the idea of an "aperiodic crystal" which contained genetic information, a concept which later inspired Watson and Crick to research the structure of DNA. In his 1926 paper, Quantization as an Eigenvalue Problem, he published an equation describing the time- and space-dependence of quantum mechanical systems, using a model of the atom as waves rather than particles. Later, he rejected the mainstream definition of wave-particle duality altogether, promoting the wave concept alone. This led him to propose a (*) thought experiment to demonstrate the absurdity of wavefunction collapse. FTP, name this Austrian-Irish physicist whose namesake thought experiment involves a vial of poison, a decaying atom, and a cat.
His 1944 book What is Life? introduced the term "negentropy" and discussed the idea of an "aperiodic crystal" which contained genetic information, a concept which later inspired Watson and Crick to research the structure of DNA.
Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander {Schrödinger}