Erwin Schrödinger - Quiz
Erwin Schrödinger
  • 1. What military role did Schrödinger hold from 1914 to 1918?
A) Naval engineer in the Austrian navy
B) Commissioned officer in the Austrian fortress artillery
C) Medical doctor at the frontline
D) Infantry general in the German army
  • 2. Whose assistant did Schrödinger become at the University of Jena in 1920?
A) Paul Dirac
B) Max Planck
C) Max Wien
D) Albert Einstein
  • 3. What academic position did Schrödinger attain at the University of Stuttgart in September 1920?
A) Ordentlicher Professor
B) Research Fellow
C) Ausserordentlicher Professor
D) Department Chair
  • 4. Which university made Schrödinger a full professor (ordentlicher Professor) in 1921?
A) University of Zurich
B) University of Breslau
C) University of Jena
D) University of Berlin
  • 5. To which university did Schrödinger move in 1921 after Breslau?
A) University of Zurich
B) Princeton University
C) University of Berlin
D) University of Oxford
  • 6. Whose chair did Schrödinger succeed at the University of Berlin in 1927?
A) Max Wien
B) Max Planck
C) Albert Einstein
D) Paul Dirac
  • 7. Why did Schrödinger decide to leave Germany in 1933?
A) He strongly disapproved of the Nazis' antisemitism
B) He was drafted into the military
C) He retired from academic life
D) He was offered a better salary in England
  • 8. Which college appointed Schrödinger as a Fellow after he left Germany?
A) Balliol College, Oxford
B) Magdalen College, Oxford
C) King's College, London
D) Trinity College, Cambridge
  • 9. With whom did Schrödinger share the Nobel Prize in Physics soon after arriving in Oxford?
A) Paul Dirac
B) Albert Einstein
C) Max Wien
D) Max Planck
  • 10. What contributed to Schrödinger's position at Oxford not working out well?
A) His lack of publishing research papers
B) His refusal to teach undergraduate students
C) His unconventional domestic arrangements sharing living quarters with two women
D) His poor English language skills
  • 11. At which American university did Schrödinger lecture in 1934?
A) Princeton University
B) Yale University
C) Columbia University
D) Harvard University
  • 12. Why did Schrödinger not accept the permanent position offered by Princeton University?
A) His wish to set up house with his wife and his mistress may have created a problem
B) He was homesick for Austria
C) He preferred to stay in Oxford permanently
D) The salary was too low to support his family
  • 13. What delayed Schrödinger from taking up a position at the University of Edinburgh?
A) Contract disputes
B) Visa delays
C) Travel bans
D) Health issues
  • 14. In what year did Schrödinger take up a position at the University of Graz?
A) 1938
B) 1933
C) 1936
D) 1934
  • 15. Which Indian university offered Schrödinger a chair position at the Department of Physics?
A) University of Calcutta
B) Allahabad University
C) Aligarh Muslim University
D) University of Delhi
  • 16. With whom did Schrödinger have extensive correspondence before proposing the cat thought experiment in 1935?
A) Albert Einstein
B) Paul Dirac
C) Max Planck
D) Max Wien
  • 17. In what year was the Schrödinger's cat thought experiment proposed?
A) 1938
B) 1933
C) 1935
D) 1927
  • 18. What historical event in 1938 caused problems for Schrödinger at the University of Graz?
A) The German annexation of Austria
B) The signing of the Munich Agreement
C) The outbreak of World War I
D) The fall of the Berlin Wall
  • 19. Why did Schrödinger face issues in Graz in 1938 beyond his 1933 flight from Germany?
A) His refusal to pay local taxes
B) His known opposition to Nazism
C) His political campaign for the opposition party
D) His failure to teach classes
  • 20. What reason did Schrödinger give Einstein for signing the statement against his true feelings?
A) He was promised a higher academic rank
B) I wanted to remain free – and could not do so without great duplicity
C) He was ordered to do so by the university president
D) He genuinely changed his political views
  • 21. For what official reason did the University of Graz dismiss Schrödinger from his post?
A) Unexcused absences
B) Financial fraud
C) Political unreliability
D) Academic incompetence
  • 22. Where did Schrödinger flee with his wife after being dismissed and harassed in Graz?
A) England
B) Italy
C) United States
D) India
  • 23. Which universities did Schrödinger take up visiting positions at after fleeing to Italy?
A) Oxford and Ghent universities
B) Princeton and Harvard universities
C) Berlin and Zurich universities
D) Jena and Stuttgart universities
  • 24. In which cities did Schrödinger participate in war work between 1914 and 1918?
A) Zurich, Geneva, Bern, Basel, Lausanne
B) London, Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Princeton
C) Gorizia, Duino, Sistiana, Prosecco, Vienna
D) Berlin, Munich, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Cologne
  • 25. When was Erwin Schrödinger born?
A) 12 August 1887
B) 12 August 1906
C) 4 January 1961
D) 4 January 1933
  • 26. When did Erwin Schrödinger die?
A) 1955
B) 4 January 1961
C) 12 August 1887
D) 1938
  • 27. What field of science did Schrödinger primarily contribute to?
A) Astronomy
B) Theoretical physics
C) Molecular biology
D) Organic chemistry
  • 28. What famous equation is Schrödinger recognized for devising?
A) Maxwell's equations
B) Schrödinger equation
C) Dirac equation
D) Einstein field equation
  • 29. In what year was the Nobel Prize in Physics shared by Schrödinger and Dirac awarded?
A) 1961
B) 1933
C) 1935
D) 1910
  • 30. What term did Schrödinger coin in 1935?
A) Schrödinger's cat
B) Wave function
C) Black hole
D) Quantum entanglement
  • 31. What is the title of Schrödinger's book that addresses genetics from the point of view of physics?
A) Nature and the Greeks
B) What Is Life?
C) Statistical Thermodynamics
D) The Physical Principles of Quantum Theory
  • 32. What is Schrödinger best known for in popular culture?
A) Schrödinger's cat
B) Quantum tunneling
C) The uncertainty principle
D) The atomic model
  • 33. Where did Schrödinger find a long-term arrangement after fleeing the Nazi takeover in Graz?
A) Dublin, Ireland
B) Vienna, Austria
C) Oxford, England
D) Berlin, Germany
  • 34. What disease caused Schrödinger's death in 1961?
A) Cancer
B) Pneumonia
C) Influenza
D) Tuberculosis
  • 35. What was the profession of Schrödinger's father, Rudolf Schrödinger?
A) Mathematician
B) Botanist
C) Physicist
D) Chemistry professor
  • 36. In what year did Schrödinger receive his Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Vienna?
A) 1914
B) 1906
C) 1887
D) 1910
  • 37. Who was Schrödinger's doctoral supervisor?
A) Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Kohlrausch
B) Wilhelm Wirtinger
C) Friedrich Hasenöhrl
D) Franz S. Exner
  • 38. What religious background did Schrödinger's father have?
A) Lutheran
B) Atheist
C) Jewish
D) Catholic
  • 39. What religious background did Schrödinger's mother have?
A) Lutheran
B) Eastern Orthodox
C) Catholic
D) Atheist
  • 40. What was Schrödinger's personal religious stance?
A) Catholic
B) Atheist
C) Lutheran
D) Devout Christian
  • 41. When did Schrödinger complete his habilitation?
A) 1914
B) 1933
C) 1906
D) 1910
  • 42. Who invited Schrödinger to reside in Dublin in 1939?
A) James D. Watson
B) Éamon de Valera
C) Francis Crick
D) Galileo
  • 43. Until what year did Schrödinger hold his position at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies?
A) 1955
B) 1948
C) 1939
D) 1953
  • 44. On which road did Schrödinger live in Clontarf, Dublin?
A) Merrion Square
B) De Valera Way
C) Kincora Road
D) Trinity Street
  • 45. Where is one of the commemorative plaques for Schrödinger located besides his Clontarf residence?
A) Merrion Square
B) The Irish Press building
C) Trinity College Dublin
D) The King's Hospital
  • 46. In what year did Schrödinger become a naturalized Irish citizen?
A) 1940
B) 1939
C) 1955
D) 1948
  • 47. Approximately how many further papers did Schrödinger publish while in Dublin?
A) Exactly five
B) About ten
C) About five hundred
D) About fifty
  • 48. Which major topic was included in Schrödinger's later papers published in Dublin?
A) The DNA double helix
B) Quantum mechanics foundations
C) Galilean dialogue manuscripts
D) Unified field theory
  • 49. Whose memoir states that Schrödinger's book inspired research into the gene?
A) Francis Crick
B) James D. Watson
C) Galileo
D) Éamon de Valera
  • 50. Where was the Galileo manuscript written for inclusion in the 1955 edition of the school magazine, Blue Coat?
A) The Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies
B) Trinity College Dublin
C) The King's Hospital
D) Kincora Road
  • 51. In what year did Schrödinger return to Vienna to become a professor emeritus?
A) 1920
B) 1961
C) 1955
D) 1956
  • 52. What type of lecture did Schrödinger give at the World Power Conference instead of speaking on nuclear power?
A) A lecture on electrical engineering
B) A philosophical lecture
C) A political lecture
D) A lecture on wave-particle duality
  • 53. In his later period, what did Schrödinger promote instead of mainstream quantum mechanics' wave-particle duality?
A) The particle idea alone
B) The wave idea alone
C) Capillary pressure formulas
D) Atmospheric radioactivity
  • 54. Where was the sanatorium located where Schrödinger formulated his wave equation?
A) Alpbach, Austria
B) Vienna, Austria
C) Zeehame
D) Arosa, Switzerland
  • 55. How old was Schrödinger when he died?
A) 73
B) 83
C) 53
D) 63
  • 56. Who was Schrödinger's usual partner in his early experimental work?
A) The editors of the Handbook of Electricity and Magnetism
B) Victor Hess
C) Franz Exner
D) Fritz Kohlrausch
  • 57. What article did Schrödinger write in 1912 for the Handbook of Electricity and Magnetism?
A) Wave Mechanics
B) Dielectrism
C) Capillary Pressure
D) Brownian Motion
  • 58. What did Schrödinger provide a theoretical estimate for in 1912 regarding radioactive substances?
A) Wave-particle duality
B) Probable height distribution
C) Velocity of coherent light
D) Capillary pressure in gas bubbles
  • 59. In what year were experiments executed in Zeehame that confirmed Schrödinger's theoretical estimate on radioactive height distribution?
A) 1913
B) 1912
C) 1920
D) 1914
  • 60. Whose theoretical estimates, along with Schrödinger's, were confirmed by the 1913 Zeehame experiments?
A) The Pope
B) Fritz Kohlrausch
C) Victor Hess
D) Franz Exner
  • 61. What prize was awarded to Schrödinger in 1920 by the Austrian Academy of Sciences?
A) Nobel Prize
B) Haitinger Prize
C) Pontifical Prize
D) Arosa Prize
  • 62. With whom did Schrödinger perform his 1914 work on soft beta radiation produced by gamma rays?
A) The University of Vienna rector
B) Victor Hess
C) Franz Exner
D) Fritz Kohlrausch
  • 63. In what year did Schrödinger perform his last physical experiment?
A) 1912
B) 1956
C) 1913
D) 1919
  • 64. What was the subject of Schrödinger's last physical experiment in 1919?
A) Coherent light
B) Atmospheric radioactivity
C) Capillary pressure
D) Nuclear power
  • 65. What particular type of considerations was of special interest to Schrödinger in quantum theory?
A) Thermodynamic equilibrium considerations
B) Newtonian gravity considerations
C) Hydrodynamic flow considerations
D) Relativistic considerations
  • 66. Whose methods did Schrödinger use in autumn 1922 to analyze electron orbits geometrically?
A) Wolfgang Pauli
B) Niels Bohr
C) Hermann Weyl
D) Max Planck
  • 67. Which experiment soon cast doubt on the BKS theory?
A) The Michelson-Morley experiment
B) The Stern-Gerlach experiment
C) The Bothe–Geiger coincidence experiment
D) The Franck-Hertz experiment
  • 68. How did Schrödinger view the idea of energy as a statistical concept throughout his life?
A) He quickly abandoned it after 1922
B) He considered it a major mathematical error
C) It was a lifelong attraction for him
D) He only used it in his final academic paper
  • 69. In which journal was Schrödinger's paper on wave mechanics published?
A) Physical Review
B) Nature
C) Annalen der Physik
D) Proceedings of the Royal Society
  • 70. What is the German title of Schrödinger's foundational 1926 paper on wave mechanics?
A) Quantisierung als Eigenwertproblem
B) Über die Beziehung zwischen der Heisenbergschen Quantenmechanik und der meinigen
C) Grundzüge einer neuen Quantentheorie
D) Die gegenwärtige Situation in der Quantenmechanik
  • 71. What did Schrödinger's first wave mechanics paper provide for a hydrogen-like atom?
A) Scattering problem solutions
B) Matrix element calculations
C) The Stark effect treatment
D) Correct energy eigenvalues
  • 72. Which molecular problem was solved in Schrödinger's second paper?
A) Hydrogen molecule ion
B) Diatomic molecule
C) Water molecule
D) Polyatomic molecule
  • 73. What rotational system problem was solved in Schrödinger's second paper?
A) Harmonic rotator
B) Rigid rotor
C) Spherical top
D) Elastic rotor
  • 74. Whose matrix mechanics did Schrödinger's third paper show equivalence to?
A) Niels Bohr
B) Albert Einstein
C) Werner Heisenberg
D) Max Born
  • 75. Which physical effect was treated in Schrödinger's third paper?
A) Photoelectric effect
B) Zeeman effect
C) Stark effect
D) Compton effect
  • 76. What specific physical scenario was used as an example of time-changing systems in the fourth paper?
A) Scattering problems
B) Eigenvalue problems
C) Harmonic oscillations
D) Matrix calculations
  • 77. To what order did Schrödinger ultimately reduce the wave equation?
A) Six
B) One
C) Two
D) Four
  • 78. What thought-experiment was introduced in the paper by Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen?
A) Double-slit experiment
B) EPR paradox
C) Schrödinger's cat
D) Wigner's friend
  • 79. Which group of physicists did Schrödinger complain about using his wave mechanics for matrix elements?
A) Vienna physicists
B) Copenhagen physicists
C) Göttingen physicists
D) Berlin physicists
  • 80. What did Schrödinger complain the Göttingen physicists were calculating using his wave mechanics?
A) Shitty matrix elements
B) Scattering amplitudes
C) Energy eigenvalues
D) Time-dependent equations
  • 81. What framework did Schrödinger use in his attempt to unite gravity, electromagnetism, and nuclear forces?
A) General relativity
B) Special relativity
C) Quantum electrodynamics
D) Newtonian mechanics
  • 82. In what year did Schrödinger announce his 'Affine Field Theory' at the Royal Irish Academy?
A) 1947
B) 1920s
C) 1956
D) 1952
  • 83. How did Albert Einstein criticize Schrödinger's announced 'Affine Field Theory'?
A) As revolutionary
B) As preliminary
C) As mathematically flawless
D) As complete
  • 84. What is the German term for colorimetry mentioned in the text?
A) Weltbild
B) Leuchtkraft
C) Tagessehen
D) Farbenmetrik
  • 85. Who edited the 1970 publication 'Sources of Colour Science' which included translated papers by Schrödinger?
A) Keith K. Niall
B) David L. MacAdam
C) Albert Einstein
D) Arthur Schopenhauer
  • 86. In his 1956 lecture, Schrödinger stated that 'The world extended in space and time is but our representation.' Whose main work does this repeat?
A) Spinoza's
B) Newton's
C) Einstein's
D) Schopenhauer's
  • 87. What philosophical tradition were Schopenhauer's works responsible for introducing to Schrödinger?
A) Indian philosophy
B) Ancient Greek philosophy
C) German idealism
D) British empiricism
  • 88. What Sanskrit phrase expressing non-duality did Schrödinger express sympathy for?
A) Om mani padme hum
B) Aham Brahmasmi
C) Sat cit ananda
D) Tat tvam asi
  • 89. In what year did Schrödinger suggest that different terms of a superposition evolving under his equation happen simultaneously rather than being alternatives?
A) 1920
B) 1947
C) 1956
D) 1952
  • 90. Whose modal interpretation did Schrödinger's later writings resemble?
A) Bas van Fraassen
B) Arthur Schopenhauer
C) Albert Einstein
D) David L. MacAdam
  • 91. What kind of monism did Schrödinger subscribe to, making wavefunction treatment as physical or information interchangeable?
A) Materialist monism
B) Dualistic monism
C) Post-Machian neutral monism
D) Idealist monism
  • 92. On what date did Erwin Schrödinger marry Annemarie Bertel?
A) 3 October 1965
B) 3 December 1896
C) 1938
D) 6 April 1920
  • 93. When was Annemarie Bertel born?
A) 3 October 1965
B) 3 December 1896
C) 1934
D) 6 April 1920
  • 94. Did Schrödinger and Anny have any children together?
A) Yes, they had a son named Terry
B) No, the marriage remained childless
C) Yes, they had multiple children
D) Yes, they had one daughter
  • 95. What type of relationship did Schrödinger and Anny have from the late 1920s onward?
A) An open relationship
B) A divorced relationship
C) A long-distance relationship
D) A strictly monogamous relationship
  • 96. When was Schrödinger's daughter with Hildegunde March born?
A) 1938
B) 1939
C) 1920
D) 1934
  • 97. In what year did Schrödinger immigrate to Ireland?
A) 1934
B) 1920
C) 1965
D) 1938
  • 98. What was Éamon de Valera's role when Schrödinger wrote to him?
A) Colleague
B) Prime Minister of the UK
C) Taoiseach
D) Physicist
  • 99. When did the ménage à trois take up residence in Dublin?
A) October 1965
B) December 1896
C) October 1939
D) April 1920
  • 100. When did Schrödinger's wife, Anny, die?
A) 3 December 1896
B) October 1939
C) 3 October 1965
D) 6 April 1920
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