Editing Erwin Schrödinger (section)

===Early years===
Schrödinger was born in Erdberg, [[Vienna]], [[Austria]], on 12 August 1887, to [[Rudolf Schrödinger]] ({{linktext |cerecloth}} producer, botanist<ref>{{cite web |last1=Schrodinger |first1=Rudolf |title=The International Plant Names Index |url=https://www.ipni.org/?q=author%20std%3ASchr%C3%B6dinger |publisher=IPNI |access-date=13 August 2016 |archive-date=13 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210813223013/https://www.ipni.org/?q=author%20std:Schr%C3%B6dinger |url-status=live }}</ref>)<ref name="The Nobel Prize in Physics 1933">{{Cite book |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1933/schrodinger/biographical/ |title=Physics 1922-1941 |publisher=Elsevier Publishing Company |year=1965 |series=Nobel Lectures |location=Amsterdam |at=Erwin Schrödinger Biographical |language=en-US |via=nobelprize.org |access-date=19 February 2023 |archive-date=7 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230307163835/https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1933/schrodinger/biographical/ |url-status=live }}</ref> and Georgine Emilia Brenda Schrödinger (née Bauer) (daughter of {{interlanguage link |Alexander Bauer |de|3=Alexander Bauer (Chemiker)}}, professor of chemistry, [[TU Wien]]).{{sfn|Moore|1994|pp=13–18}} He was their only child.

His mother was of half Austrian and half English descent; his father was [[Catholic Church|Catholic]] and his mother was [[Lutheranism|Lutheran]]. He himself was an [[atheist]].<ref>{{harvnb|Moore|1994|pages=289–290}} Quote: "In one respect, however, he is not a romantic: he does not idealize the person of the beloved, his highest praise is to consider her his equal. 'When you feel your own equal in the body of a beautiful woman, just as ready to forget the world for you as you for her – oh my good Lord – who can describe what happiness then. You can live it, now and again – you cannot speak of it.' Of course, he does speak of it, and almost always with religious imagery. Yet at this time he also wrote, 'By the way, I never realized that to be nonbelieving, to be an atheist, was a thing to be proud of. It went without saying as it were.' And in another place at about this same time: 'Our creed is indeed a queer creed. You others, Christians (and similar people), consider our ethics much inferior, indeed abominable. There is that little difference. We adhere to ours in practice, you don't.'"</ref> However, he had strong interests in [[Eastern religions]] and [[pantheism]], and he used religious symbolism in his works.<ref>{{cite book|title=Einstein's Dice and Schrödinger's Cat|year=2015|publisher=Perseus Books Group|isbn=978-0-465-07571-3|first=Paul|last=Halpern|page=157|quote="In the presentation of a scientific problem, the other player is the good Lord. He has not only set the problem but also has devised the rules of the game--but they are not completely known, half of them are left for you to discover or deduce. I am very astonished that the scientific picture of the real world around me is very deficient. It gives a lot of factual information, puts all our experience in a magnificently consistent order, but is ghastly silent about all that is really near to our heart, that really matters to us. It cannot tell us a word about red and blue, bitter and sweet, physical pain and physical delight; it knows nothing of beautiful and ugly, good or bad, God and eternity. Science sometimes pretends to answer questions in these domains, but the answers are very often so silly that we are not inclined to take them seriously. I shall quite briefly mention here the notorious atheism of science. The theists reproach it for this again and again. Unjustly. A personal God cannot be encountered in a world picture that becomes accessible only at the price that everything personal is excluded from it. We know that whenever God is experienced, it is an experience exactly as real as a direct sense impression, as real as one's own personality. As such He must be missing from the space-time picture. "I do not meet with God in space and time", so says the honest scientific thinker, and for that reason he is reproached by those in whose catechism it is nevertheless stated: "God is a Spirit." Whence came I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer for it"}}</ref> He also believed his scientific work was an approach to divinity in an intellectual sense.<ref>{{harvnb|Moore|1992|p=4}} Quote: "He rejected traditional religious beliefs (Jewish, Christian, and Islamic) not on the basis of any reasoned argument, nor even with an expression of emotional antipathy, for he loved to use religious expressions and metaphors, but simply by saying that they are naive." ... "He claimed to be an atheist, but he always used religious symbolism and believed his scientific work was an approach to the godhead."</ref>

He was also able to learn English outside school, as his maternal grandmother was British.<ref name="hof1">{{cite book|author=Hoffman, D.|title=Эрвин Шрёдингер|publisher=Мир |year=1987 |pages=13–17}}</ref> Between 1906 and 1910 (the year he earned his doctorate) Schrödinger studied at the [[University of Vienna]] under the physicists [[Franz S. Exner]] (1849–1926) and [[Friedrich Hasenöhrl]] (1874–1915). He received his doctorate at Vienna under Hasenöhrl. He also conducted experimental work with Karl Wilhelm Friedrich "Fritz" Kohlrausch. In 1911, Schrödinger became an assistant to Exner.<ref name="The Nobel Prize in Physics 1933" />