Famous Austrian Physicists

Birthdate: August 12, 1887

Sun Sign: Leo

Birthplace: Erdberg, Vienna, Austria

Died: January 4, 1961

Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger, is best known for the "Schrödinger's cat" experiment, or the Schrodinger equation. His book What Is Life? explored genetics through physics. The Nobel Prize winner also wrote on a variety of topics, such as color theory and thermodynamics, and tried to create a unified field theory.