Austrian physicist who wrote the wave equation of quantum mechanics and shared the 1933 Nobel Prize. His thought experiment of a cat both dead and alive, 薛定谔的猫, is a common Chinese joke for anything undecided.
Xuēdìng'è fāngchéng miáoshù liàngzǐ xìtǒng de yǎnhuà.
The Schrödinger equation describes the evolution of quantum systems.
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The standard spelling, used in textbooks, in 薛定谔方程 (the Schrödinger equation) and in the cat joke, is 薛定谔 with 谔 'outspoken'. This form swaps in 锷 'sword edge', which sounds the same.
