The Schrodinger equation is the fundamental equation of non-relativistic quantum mechanics, describing how the quantum state of a physical system, represented by its wave function, changes over time. Austrian physicist Erwin Schrodinger formulated the equation in 1926, building on Louis de Broglie's proposal that matter carries wave-like properties, and the equation's solutions give the probability of finding a particle in a given state or location upon measurement, a probabilistic interpretation developed chiefly by Max Born. Schrodinger shared the 1933 Nobel Prize in Physics with Paul Dirac for this and related contributions, and the equation remains the standard starting point for calculating the behavior of atoms, molecules and other quantum systems.
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postulated the equation in 1925 and published it in 1926
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It is named after Erwin Schr?dinger, an Austrian physicist
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