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| Physicist, born in Vienna, Austria. He taught at Stuttgart, Wrocław, Poland (formerly Breslau, Prussia), Zürich, Berlin, Oxford (1933–8), and Dublin (1940–56), after which he retired to Vienna. His celebrated wave equation (1926), describing the behaviour of matter as waves, is as important to science at the subatomic level as Newton's laws of motion are to mechanics in the normal-size world. A versatile scientist, he also made significant contributions to molecular biology, and philosophy. He shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1933. His books include What is Life? (1946) and Science and Man (1958). |
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