Talk:Erwin Schrödinger

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i am really confused with the wording "his known preference". What does that mean? At first i thought he might have been a Jew and so i scrolled back--no where mentions that! Is he homosexual? Somebody please tell me.

He wasn't Jewish or homosexual as far as I know, he did live in a menage a trois, maybe that's what's refered too, I hope to do some work on this entry soon to note that. Notjim 16:01, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)

In fact, his known preference means that it was known his disliked the Nazis. I have now added to this space, but it needs much more work. Notjim 23:40, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I have removed phrase "although he was Catholic" in the sentence explaining why he left Germany This phrase suggested, that all Catholic are generaly anti-semits - which is rather NPOV. I rather think that he dislikes nazis because he was deeply christian and couldn't stand what was going on at that time in Germany Polimerek 09:11, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Contents 1 Austrian vs. Irish 2 Alexander Lindemann? Or should it be Frederick Lindemann? 3 Religion 4 Pronunciation 5 Penchant for women? 6 DNA?

[edit] Austrian vs. Irish

Someone added Schrodinger to the category of Irish Scientists, and he's since been moved to the category of Austrian scientists.

Whilst he was born in Austria, he held an Irish passport and did much of his work in Dublin. Should he hence be put in both categories?

Kiand 08:35, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Although it is an exaggeration to say he did much of his work in Dublin, I think he should be in both, the Irish scientist category explicitely states that it is intended as a category of Irish born scientists and scientists who worked in Ireland. Talking about nationality and scientists is always odd and talking about nationality and the Irish is sometimes problematic, for example, Hamilton was Irish born and worked in Ireland but would possibly have thought of himself as British and again, many Irish born scientists in the C19 worked in England and so can quite sensibly be categorised as both British scientists and Irish scientists. Replacing Irish scientists with Austrian scientists seems like a bad thing to do, it removes a piece of information.

Notjim 16:01, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Shouldn't he be moved to Category:Irish physicists, then? He was a physicist, after all. --Fibonacci 06:33, 9 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Alexander Lindemann? Or should it be Frederick Lindemann?

Under Personal life there is a redlink to "Alexander Lindemann, the head of physics at Oxford University". I was wondering whether or not that should be Frederick Lindemann instead. Frederick Lindemann was at that time professor of experimental philosophy at Oxford University and director of the Clarendon Laboratory, and I know that he was instrumental in getting Jewish scientists out of Nazi Germany. Can somebody clarify this issue? JdH 08:44, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Religion

his religion is Vedantic Hinduism what he actually believed in Buddhist143

We need you to cite a source for that. Pfalstad 04:46, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

I don't know if that was his actual religion, or if he even had one - there would need to be a source indeed - but he was certainly interested in Vedantic thought in the long term. It's apparently one of the shaping influences of his book What is Life? I have not read the book myself, but it's looking increasingly good on the "Someday When There's Time" list. - 69.64.200.2 14:50, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

he definitely was not roman catholic, as it was cited in the article incorrectly.

[edit] Pronunciation

Could any one please give the correct phonetic spelling of his name? How is it pronounced? Is it Shrodinjer or Shrowinjer? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 59.152.88.4 (talk • contribs) .

I always heard Shray-dinger in college, although that is not the correct Austrian pronunciation. If you go here [1] and scroll down to the dictionary, you can click on the little speaker to here it pronounced. They say Shrow-dinger. The correct way is a cross between Shray and Shrow, I think. Pfalstad 17:43, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Penchant for women?

I think the just-removed section on Schrödinger's relationships with two women should not be introduced with the POV phrase "penchant for women," but that otherwise the story is pretty much as found in the book Schrödinger: Life and Thought. So, clean it up, put it back, and cite it. Dicklyon 00:43, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] DNA?

Except in the sense that all early molecular biologists were influenced by his book (as discussed in the article), how does he get included in the structure of the double helix template? He could equally well have been included as the precursor to several thousand other topics. DGG 04:15, 18 March 2007 (UTC)