Schrödinger
Centenary Celebration of a Polymath

In this volume, prepared in 1987 to celebrate the centenary of Schrödinger's birth, leading figures have collaborated to produce this survey of the man and his science.

C. W. Kilmister (Edited by)

9780521379298, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 16 March 1989

264 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.4 kg

Schrödinger's influence in almost every field of science is still felt. He was a man who single-handedly reshaped thinking in cosmology, wave mechanics, statistical mechanics, unified field theories, theoretical chemistry and molecular biology. In this volume, which was prepared in 1987 to celebrate the centenary of Schrödinger's birth, leading figures in all these fields have collaborated to produce this carefully integrated and edited survey of the man and his science. Some of the contributions are biographical in nature, revealing much about the character of the man. Others deal with modern-day theories in different fields of science in which Schrödinger worked and his influence in those areas.

1. Introduction C. W. Kilmister
2. Boltzmann's influence on Schrödinger Dieter Flamm
3. Schrödinger's original interpretation of the Schrödinger equation: a rescue attempt Jon Dorling
4. Are there quantum jumps? J. S. Bell
5. Square root of minus one, complex phases and Erwin Schrödinger Chen Ning Yung
6. Consequences of the Schrödinger equation for atomic and molecular physics W. E. Thirring
7. Molecular dynamics: from H + H, to biomolecules Martin Karplus
8. Orbital presentation of chemical reactions Kenichi Fukui
9. Quantum chemistry A. D. Buckingham
10. Eamon de Valera, Erwin Schrödinger and the Dublin Institute Sir William McCrea
11. Do bosons condense? J. T. Lewis
12. Schrödinger's nonlinear optics James McConnell
13. Schrödinger's unified field theory seen 40 years later O. Hittmair
14. The Schrödinger equation of the Universe S. W. Hawking
15. Overview of particle physics A. Salam
16. Gauge fields, topological defects and cosmology T. W. B. Kibble
17. Quantum theory and astronomy M. J. Seaton
18. Schrödinger's contributions to chemistry and biology Linus Pawling
19. Erwin Schrödinger's What is Life? and molecular biology M. F. Perutz.

Subject Areas: Physics [PH]