Q 01/05

Schrödinger shared the 1933 Nobel Prize in Physics with which British physicist?

A) Paul Dirac

B) James Chadwick

C) Patrick Blackett

D) Nevill Mott

Answer · why

A) Paul Dirac

The two later tied for eighth in a Physics World poll of the greatest physicists of all time.

Q 02/05

The 1933 Nobel citation praised the discovery of 'new productive forms of' what?

A) Nuclear energy

B) Wave optics

C) Atomic theory

D) Statistical mechanics

Answer · why

C) Atomic theory

It came the same year he fled Nazi Germany for Oxford.

Q 03/05

Which now-ubiquitous term did Schrödinger coin in 1935?

A) Wave function

B) Quantum entanglement

C) Superposition

D) Decoherence

Answer · why

B) Quantum entanglement

He called it the feature 'that enforces its entire departure from classical lines of thought'.

Q 04/05

In which city was Schrödinger born in 1887?

A) Graz

B) Salzburg

C) Prague

D) Vienna

Answer · why

D) Vienna

He was an only child; his mother was half Austrian and half English.

Q 05/05

What was the profession of Schrödinger's father Rudolf?

A) Physician

B) Banker

C) Composer

D) Botanist

Answer · why

D) Botanist

His mother was the daughter of a chemistry professor at the Vienna technical university.