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description: "The man who wrote the equation that predicts how quantum systems evolve — and who gave us the term \"quantum entanglement\" — is now mostly remembered for a cat that's simultaneously alive and dead in a box, a thought experiment he created to show how absurd the Copenhagen interpretation seemed."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Erwin Schrödinger was born in Vienna on 12 August 1887 and trained as a theoretical physicist in Austria. He devised the Schrödinger equation, the core tool for calculating wave functions and their change over time, and for that work shared the 1933 Nobel Prize in Physics with Paul Dirac. His range was wide: he wrote on statistical mechanics, thermodynamics, color theory, general relativity, cosmology, and unified field theory, and in "What Is Life?" he approached genetics through the lens of physics. He lived with his wife and mistress, a domestic arrangement that contributed to his departure from Oxford; he moved to Graz in 1938 but fled Austria when the Nazis took over, eventually settling in Dublin where he worked until 1955. He returned to Vienna the following year as an emeritus professor and died of tuberculosis on 4 January 1961. In 1989, allegations of sexual abuse of minors emerged.