Challenges
Datasets
Workspaces
Papers
Discussions
Leaderboard
Log inSign up
Challenges
Datasets
Workspaces
Papers
Discussions
Leaderboard
Blog
Job Board
Q3AS

© 2026 Aqora Quantum S.A.S.

TermsPrivacyLegal Notice

Schrodinger: Centenary Celebration of a Polymath

Clive W. Kilmister

Published Mar 31, 1989• 49 citations
OpenAlex

Abstract

1. Introduction C. W. Kilmister 2. Boltzmann's influence on Schrodinger Dieter Flamm 3. Schrodinger's original interpretation of the Schrodinger equation: a rescue attempt Jon Dorling 4. Are there quantum jumps? J. S. Bell 5. Square root of minus one, complex phases and Erwin Schrodinger Chen Ning Yung 6. Consequences of the Schrodinger 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 Schrodinger and the Dublin Institute Sir William McCrea 11. Do bosons condense? J. T. Lewis 12. Schrodinger's nonlinear optics James McConnell 13. Schrodinger's unified field theory seen 40 years later O. Hittmair 14. The Schrodinger 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. Schrodinger's contributions to chemistry and biology Linus Pawling 19. Erwin Schrodinger's What is Life? and molecular biology M. F. Perutz.

Related papers

Schrödinger: Centenary Celebration of a Polymath

Noel Cottingham

C W Kilmister (ed) 1987 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press ix + 253 pp price £30 ISBN 0 521 34017 9 Many of the invited papers presented at a conference held in April 1987 to celebrate the centenary of Erwin Schrödinger's birth are contained in this book. For the most part they deal with scientific issues with which Schrödinger was concerned.

Physics Bulletin•Nov 1, 1987•8 citations

Schrödinger

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.

Cambridge University Press eBooks•Apr 2, 1987•25 citations

Erwin Schrödinger's world view : the dynamics of knowledge and reality

Johann Götschl

E. Schroedinger - a bibliographical sketch. Part 1 Physics in the philosophical system of Erwin Schroedinger: Erwin Schroedinger and the philosophy of the physicists holistic aspects of the Schrodinger equation Schroedinger's cat and the interpretation of quantum mechanics the Schroedinger function of macroscopic systems. Part 2 Life sciences and the theories of self in Erwin Schroedinger's philosophical system: Schroedinger's negentropy concept and biology determination and self-organization - Erwin Schroedinger's views on chance Schroedinger, the self and the genes Erwin Schroedinger and his contribution to a new understanding of living systems. Part 3 Erwin Schroedinger's world view and his philosophical system: on the scientific and humanistic thinking of Erwin Schroedinger during his last years Erwin Schroedinger as historian - notes towards an interpretation Erwin Schroedinger's position in the Einstein-Bohr debate the notion of consciousness in Schroedinger's philosophy of nature remembering Schroedinger the study of nature and the emergence of world view - philosophical reflections on E. Schreodinger's approach.

Kluwer Academic Publishers eBooks•Jan 1, 1992•6 citations

Life and Mind, Past and Future: Schrödinger's Vision Fifty Years Later

Avshalom C. Elitzur

Life and Mind, Past and Future:Schrödinger's Vision Fifty Years Later Avshalom C. Elitzur Avshalom C. Elitzur Department of Chemical Physics, The Weizmann Institute of Science, 76100 Rehovot, Israel References 1. SCHRÖDINGER, E. What is Life? The Physical Aspect of the Living Cell. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1945. Google Scholar 2. PERUTZ, M. F. Physics and the riddles of life. Nature 326:555-558, 1987. Google Scholar 3. PERUTZ, M. F. Erwin Schrödinger's What is Life? and molecular biology. In Schrödinger: Centenary Celebration of a Polymath, edited by C. W. KILMISTER. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1987. Google Scholar 4. PAULING, L. Schrödinger's contribution to chemistry and biology. In Schrödinger: Centenary Celebration of a Polymath, edited by C. W. KILMISTER. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1987. Google Scholar 5. YOCKEY, H. P. Information Theory and Molecular Biology. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1992. Google Scholar 6. LEFF, S. H. and REX, A. F. Maxwell's Demon: Entropy, Information, Computing. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1990. Google Scholar 7. PENROSE, R. The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics. New York: Vintage, 1989. Google Scholar 8. BRILLOUIN, L. Scientific Uncertainty, and Information. New York: Academic Press, 1964. Google Scholar 9. ELITZUR, A. C. Let there be life: Thermodynamic reflections on biogenesis and evolution. J. Theor. Biol. 168, 1994 (forthcoming). Google Scholar 10. EIGEN, M. Steps towards Life: A Perspective on Evolution. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1992. Google Scholar 11. VON NEUMANN, J. Theory of Self-Reproducing Automata. Urbana, Ill.: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1966. Google Scholar 12. ELITZUR, A. C. Is there no information in thermodynamics? A book review of Information Theory and Molecular Biology by H. P. Yockey (1992). Contemp. Phys. 34, 1994 (forthcoming). Google Scholar 13. LIFSON, S. Autocatalysis, natural selection, life and its origin. Preprint, Dept. of Chemical Physics, The Weizmann Institute of Science, 1994. Google Scholar 14. SMITH, T. F., and MOROWITZ, H. J. Between history and physics. J. Molec. Evol. 18:265-282, 1982. Google Scholar 15. WEBER, B. H.; DEPEW, D. J.; DYKE, C.; et al. Evolution in thermodynamic perspective: An ecological approach. Biol, and Philos. 4:373-405, 1989. Google Scholar 16. ORGEL, L. Molecular replication. Nature 358:203-209, 1992. Google Scholar 17. SCHNEIDER, E. D. Thermodynamics, ecological succession, and natural selection: A common thread. In Entropy, Information, and Evolution, edited by B. H. WEBER, D. J. DEPEW, and J. D. SMITH. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1988. Google Scholar 18. ROBERTSON, D. S. Feedback theory and Darwinian evolution. J. Theor. Biol. 152:469-484, 1991. Google Scholar 19. STUART, C. I. J. M. Physical models of biological information and adaptation. J. Theor. Biol. 113:441-454, 1985. Google Scholar 20. STUART, C. I. J. M. Bio-informational equivalence. J. Theor. Biol. 113:611-636, 1985. Google Scholar 21. DENEUNBOURG, J. L.; GOSS, S.; BECKERS, R.; and SANDINI, G. Collectively self-solving problems. In Self-Organization, Emerging Properties, and Learning, edited by A. BABLOYANTZ. NATO ASI Series B-260. New York: Plenum, 1991. Google Scholar 22. LORENZ, K. The Other Side of the Mirror. New York: Harcourt, 1973. Google Scholar 23. WYNNE-EDWARDS, V. C. Animal Dispersion in Relation to Social Behavior. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1962. Google Scholar 24. MAYR, E. The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1982. Google Scholar 25. HESCHL, A. L = C: A simple equation with astonishing consequences. J. Theor. Biol. 145:13-40, 1990. Google Scholar 26. WUKETITS, F. M. Evolution and cognition: Paradigms, perspectives, problems. Evol. and Cognition 1:1-29, 1991. Google Scholar 27. POPPER, K. R. Objective Knowledge: An Evolutionary Approach. Oxford: Clarendon, 1972. Google Scholar 28. DEWDNEY, A. K. The Armchair Universe: An Exploration of Computer Universes. New York: Freeman, 1988. Google Scholar 29. HOLLAND, J. H. Genetic algorithms. Sci. Am. 267(1):44-50, 1992. Google Scholar 30. HIRATA, H. Information of organization...

Perspectives in biology and medicine•Mar 1, 1995•3 citations

Introduction

Clive W. Kilmister

This book describes the many aspects of the life and scientific work of Erwin Schrödinger, who, perhaps more than anyone else, serves to represent the whole of modern physics. The contributions to the book are from many hands, and so it seemed useful to me to precede them with a short note giving an uncontroversial account of his life which will serve as a framework into which they can be fitted. Such a collection as this still leaves out many aspects of Schrödinger's thought, for it considers his philosophy only in passing, his poetry not at all and ignores his wide and deep interest in sculpture and painting and in the classics. Schrödinger was born in Vienna on August 12, 1887, and entered the University there to read physics in 1906. He worked there as an assistant from 1910 till his war service, and again after the war. Some short term appointments at Jena, Stuttgart and Breslau led up to his appointment to the chair of theoretical physics in Zürich in 1921. He was already treating a wide range of topics, but concentrating on atomic theory, for the old quantum theory had now entered on its heroic phase of final collapse. His six papers founding wave mechanics came at the end of his Zürich years, and in 1927 he went to the chair in Berlin, to remain there till the advent of Hitler in 1933.

Cambridge University Press eBooks•Apr 2, 1987•2 citations

Niels Bohr, physics and the world : proceedings of the Niels Bohr Centennial Symposium, Boston, Massachusetts, USA., November 12-14, 1985, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Herman Feshbach, 哲男 松井, Alexandra Oleson

Overview, Victor Weisskopf Niels Bohr and the development of physics, A.Pais on the origins of the Copenhagen interpretation, Arthur I.Miller Niels Bohr and atomic physics today, Daniel Kleppner condensed matter physics - does quantum mechanics matter?, Michael E.Fisher nuclear physics - comments and reflections, Herman Feshbach the new ether, J.D.Bjorken recent developments in cosmology, George Field black holes and the foundations of quantum mechanics, Gerard't Hooft do black holes emit black body radiation?, T.D.Lee quarternionic quantum field theory, Stephen L.Adler light and life - Niels Bohr's legacy to contemporary biology, Gunther S.Stent Bertlmann's socks and the nature of reality, J.S.Bell fifty years later - when gedanken experiments become real experiments, Alain Aspect Philippe Grangier physical and philosophical issues in the Bohr-Einstein debate, Abner Shimony the Soviet reaction to Bohr's quantum mechanics, Loren R.Graham Niels Bohr and the first principles of arms control, Martin J.Sherwin American attitudes on security - comments, John Steinbruner science, technology and the arms race - European perspectives, Edoardo Amaldi.

Harwood Academic Publishers eBooks•Jan 1, 1988•2 citations
  1. Introduction C. W. Kilmister 2. Boltzmann's influence on Schrodinger Dieter Flamm 3. Schrodinger's original interpretation of the Schrodinger equation: a rescue attempt Jon Dorling 4. Are there quantum jumps? J. S. Bell 5. Square root of minus one, complex phases and Erwin Schrodinger Chen Ning Yung 6. Consequences of the Schrodinger 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 Schrodinger and the Dublin Institute Sir William McCrea 11. Do bosons condense? J. T. Lewis 12. Schrodinger's nonlinear optics James McConnell 13. Schrodinger's unified field theory seen 40 years later O. Hittmair 14. The Schrodinger 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. Schrodinger's contributions to chemistry and biology Linus Pawling 19. Erwin Schrodinger's What is Life? and molecular biology M. F. Perutz.
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.
E. Schroedinger - a bibliographical sketch. Part 1 Physics in the philosophical system of Erwin Schroedinger: Erwin Schroedinger and the philosophy of the physicists holistic aspects of the Schrodinger equation Schroedinger's cat and the interpretation of quantum mechanics the Schroedinger function of macroscopic systems. Part 2 Life sciences and the theories of self in Erwin Schroedinger's philosophical system: Schroedinger's negentropy concept and biology determination and self-organization - Erwin Schroedinger's views on chance Schroedinger, the self and the genes Erwin Schroedinger and his contribution to a new understanding of living systems. Part 3 Erwin Schroedinger's world view and his philosophical system: on the scientific and humanistic thinking of Erwin Schroedinger during his last years Erwin Schroedinger as historian - notes towards an interpretation Erwin Schroedinger's position in the Einstein-Bohr debate the notion of consciousness in Schroedinger's philosophy of nature remembering Schroedinger the study of nature and the emergence of world view - philosophical reflections on E. Schreodinger's approach.
Life and Mind, Past and Future:Schrödinger's Vision Fifty Years Later Avshalom C. Elitzur Avshalom C. Elitzur Department of Chemical Physics, The Weizmann Institute of Science, 76100 Rehovot, Israel References 1. SCHRÖDINGER, E. What is Life? The Physical Aspect of the Living Cell. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1945. Google Scholar 2. PERUTZ, M. F. Physics and the riddles of life. Nature 326:555-558, 1987. Google Scholar 3. PERUTZ, M. F. Erwin Schrödinger's What is Life? and molecular biology. In Schrödinger: Centenary Celebration of a Polymath, edited by C. W. KILMISTER. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1987. Google Scholar 4. PAULING, L. Schrödinger's contribution to chemistry and biology. In Schrödinger: Centenary Celebration of a Polymath, edited by C. W. KILMISTER. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1987. Google Scholar 5. YOCKEY, H. P. Information Theory and Molecular Biology. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1992. Google Scholar 6. LEFF, S. H. and REX, A. F. Maxwell's Demon: Entropy, Information, Computing. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1990. Google Scholar 7. PENROSE, R. The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics. New York: Vintage, 1989. Google Scholar 8. BRILLOUIN, L. Scientific Uncertainty, and Information. New York: Academic Press, 1964. Google Scholar 9. ELITZUR, A. C. Let there be life: Thermodynamic reflections on biogenesis and evolution. J. Theor. Biol. 168, 1994 (forthcoming). Google Scholar 10. EIGEN, M. Steps towards Life: A Perspective on Evolution. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1992. Google Scholar 11. VON NEUMANN, J. Theory of Self-Reproducing Automata. Urbana, Ill.: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1966. Google Scholar 12. ELITZUR, A. C. Is there no information in thermodynamics? A book review of Information Theory and Molecular Biology by H. P. Yockey (1992). Contemp. Phys. 34, 1994 (forthcoming). Google Scholar 13. LIFSON, S. Autocatalysis, natural selection, life and its origin. Preprint, Dept. of Chemical Physics, The Weizmann Institute of Science, 1994. Google Scholar 14. SMITH, T. F., and MOROWITZ, H. J. Between history and physics. J. Molec. Evol. 18:265-282, 1982. Google Scholar 15. WEBER, B. H.; DEPEW, D. J.; DYKE, C.; et al. Evolution in thermodynamic perspective: An ecological approach. Biol, and Philos. 4:373-405, 1989. Google Scholar 16. ORGEL, L. Molecular replication. Nature 358:203-209, 1992. Google Scholar 17. SCHNEIDER, E. D. Thermodynamics, ecological succession, and natural selection: A common thread. In Entropy, Information, and Evolution, edited by B. H. WEBER, D. J. DEPEW, and J. D. SMITH. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1988. Google Scholar 18. ROBERTSON, D. S. Feedback theory and Darwinian evolution. J. Theor. Biol. 152:469-484, 1991. Google Scholar 19. STUART, C. I. J. M. Physical models of biological information and adaptation. J. Theor. Biol. 113:441-454, 1985. Google Scholar 20. STUART, C. I. J. M. Bio-informational equivalence. J. Theor. Biol. 113:611-636, 1985. Google Scholar 21. DENEUNBOURG, J. L.; GOSS, S.; BECKERS, R.; and SANDINI, G. Collectively self-solving problems. In Self-Organization, Emerging Properties, and Learning, edited by A. BABLOYANTZ. NATO ASI Series B-260. New York: Plenum, 1991. Google Scholar 22. LORENZ, K. The Other Side of the Mirror. New York: Harcourt, 1973. Google Scholar 23. WYNNE-EDWARDS, V. C. Animal Dispersion in Relation to Social Behavior. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1962. Google Scholar 24. MAYR, E. The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1982. Google Scholar 25. HESCHL, A. L = C: A simple equation with astonishing consequences. J. Theor. Biol. 145:13-40, 1990. Google Scholar 26. WUKETITS, F. M. Evolution and cognition: Paradigms, perspectives, problems. Evol. and Cognition 1:1-29, 1991. Google Scholar 27. POPPER, K. R. Objective Knowledge: An Evolutionary Approach. Oxford: Clarendon, 1972. Google Scholar 28. DEWDNEY, A. K. The Armchair Universe: An Exploration of Computer Universes. New York: Freeman, 1988. Google Scholar 29. HOLLAND, J. H. Genetic algorithms. Sci. Am. 267(1):44-50, 1992. Google Scholar 30. HIRATA, H. Information of organization...
This book describes the many aspects of the life and scientific work of Erwin Schrödinger, who, perhaps more than anyone else, serves to represent the whole of modern physics. The contributions to the book are from many hands, and so it seemed useful to me to precede them with a short note giving an uncontroversial account of his life which will serve as a framework into which they can be fitted. Such a collection as this still leaves out many aspects of Schrödinger's thought, for it considers his philosophy only in passing, his poetry not at all and ignores his wide and deep interest in sculpture and painting and in the classics. Schrödinger was born in Vienna on August 12, 1887, and entered the University there to read physics in 1906. He worked there as an assistant from 1910 till his war service, and again after the war. Some short term appointments at Jena, Stuttgart and Breslau led up to his appointment to the chair of theoretical physics in Zürich in 1921. He was already treating a wide range of topics, but concentrating on atomic theory, for the old quantum theory had now entered on its heroic phase of final collapse. His six papers founding wave mechanics came at the end of his Zürich years, and in 1927 he went to the chair in Berlin, to remain there till the advent of Hitler in 1933.
Overview, Victor Weisskopf Niels Bohr and the development of physics, A.Pais on the origins of the Copenhagen interpretation, Arthur I.Miller Niels Bohr and atomic physics today, Daniel Kleppner condensed matter physics - does quantum mechanics matter?, Michael E.Fisher nuclear physics - comments and reflections, Herman Feshbach the new ether, J.D.Bjorken recent developments in cosmology, George Field black holes and the foundations of quantum mechanics, Gerard't Hooft do black holes emit black body radiation?, T.D.Lee quarternionic quantum field theory, Stephen L.Adler light and life - Niels Bohr's legacy to contemporary biology, Gunther S.Stent Bertlmann's socks and the nature of reality, J.S.Bell fifty years later - when gedanken experiments become real experiments, Alain Aspect Philippe Grangier physical and philosophical issues in the Bohr-Einstein debate, Abner Shimony the Soviet reaction to Bohr's quantum mechanics, Loren R.Graham Niels Bohr and the first principles of arms control, Martin J.Sherwin American attitudes on security - comments, John Steinbruner science, technology and the arms race - European perspectives, Edoardo Amaldi.