ABSTRACT
Erwin Schro¨dinger was born in Vienna in 1887, and, by 1927, principally as a result of his celebrated discovery of wave mechanics, he was recognized as one of the most outstanding physicists of his time. In that year he succeeded Max Planck in the prestigious chair of theoretical physics in the University of Berlin and it seemed certain that he would spend the rest of his career there, but the unsettled nature of European politics in the 1930s and 1940s resulted in him instead spending the years 1939 to 1956 in Dublin, where he was Director of the School of Theoretical Physics in the Institute for Advanced Studies from its foundation in 1940.
