Today, I will write about the scientist Erwin Schrodinger. So, Erwin Schrodinger had a very very long name! His name is Erwin Rudolph Josef Alexander Schrodinger!

He was an Austrian physicist, and he researched on quantum physics and quantum theories. He studied subatomic particles.!

He was born on August 12, 1887, in Vienna, Austria. He died on January 4 1961 in Vienna, Austria. His father was named Rudolf Schrodinger. He was a Botanist!

Between 1906 and 1910 he studied at the University of Vienna. With the help of someone called Paul Dirac, Schrodinger and Dirac together won the Nobel Prize for physics. He wrote many books in numerous fields of physics, such as thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, color theory, cosmology, and general relativity. He had done various experiments! One of them was called the Schrodinger’s Cat.

Schrodinger’s Cat was a thought experiment. That means, it is an experiment he did in his mind. He stated that if you put a cat with something that can kill the cat (like something radioactive), you won’t know whether the cat is dead or alive until you open the box. Until you open the box, you see that the cat is kind of dead and alive at the same time! Isn’t that cool?!

So, he studied subatomic particles, and more. His work is even used today! It is used in the modern times in quantum computers. In a regular computer, the binary code is either a one or a zero. In a quantum computer, it’s one or a zero or both at the same time!

On a regular computer – it’s either one or zero. So if it is a one, that one is called a bit. If it’s a zero, that zero is also called a bit. But on the other hand, a quantum computer is different. In a quantum computer, if it is a one, it’s called a qubit. If it’s a zero, it’s also called a qubit. If it’s a one and a zero at the same time, that specific qubit is called a superposition.