Next to want, boredom has become the worst scourge in our lives. - Erwin Schrödinger

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Next to want, boredom has become the worst scourge in our lives.

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About Erwin Schrödinger

Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger (12 August 1887 – 4 January 1961) was an Austrian physicist, one of the founders of quantum theory, and winner of the 1933 Nobel Prize in Physics. His ideas were heavily influenced by monist philosophy and he is particularly well known for original interpretations of the significance of the wave function and for devising the Schrödinger's cat thought experiment.

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Alternative Names: Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schröndinger Erwin Schrodinger Erwin Schroedinger Schrödinger Schrodinger Ervinus Rudolphus Iosephus Alexandrus Schrödinger
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