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