Editing Erwin Schrödinger (section)

=== Sexual abuse allegations ===
At the age of 39, Schrödinger tutored a 14-year-old girl named "Ithi" Junger. Walter Moore relates in his 1989 biography of Schrödinger that the lessons "included 'a fair amount of petting and cuddling{{'"}} and Schrödinger "had fallen in love with his pupil".<ref>{{harvnb|Moore|1989}}</ref> Moore further relates that "not long after her seventeenth birthday, they became lovers". The relationship continued and in 1932 she became pregnant (then aged 20<ref>{{Cite web |last=Taschwer |first=Klaus |date=2022-10-20 |title=Schrödingers verlorene Ehre – und ein Versuch ihrer Wiederherstellung |url=https://www.derstandard.de/story/2000140122217/schroedingers-verlorene-ehre-und-ein-versuch-ihrer-wiederherstellung |access-date=2024-03-23 |website=Der Standard |language=de-AT}}</ref>). "Erwin tried to persuade her to have the child; he said he would take care of it, but he did not offer to divorce [wife] Anny... in desperation, Ithi arranged for an abortion."

Moore describes Schrödinger having a 'Lolita complex'. He quotes from Schrödinger's diary from the time where he said that "men of strong, genuine intellectuality are immensely attracted only by women who, forming the very beginning of the intellectual series, are as nearly connected to the preferred springs of nature as they". A 2021 [[The Irish Times|''Irish Times'']] article summarized this as a "predilection for teenage girls", and denounced Schrödinger as "a serial abuser whose behaviour fitted the profile of a paedophile in the widely understood sense of that term".<ref name="Humphreys">{{Cite news |last=Humphreys |first=Joe |title=How Erwin Schrödinger indulged his 'Lolita complex' in Ireland |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/how-erwin-schr%C3%B6dinger-indulged-his-lolita-complex-in-ireland-1.4749204 |url-access=subscription|date=2021-12-11 |access-date=2022-01-25 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20230227041053/https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/how-erwin-schr%C3%B6dinger-indulged-his-lolita-complex-in-ireland-1.4749204|archive-date=2023-02-27|url-status=live|newspaper=[[The Irish Times]]|language=en}}</ref> Schrödinger's grandson and his mother were unhappy with the accusation made by Moore, and once the biography was published, their family broke off contact with him.<ref name="derstandard" />

[[Carlo Rovelli]] notes in his book ''[[Helgoland (book)|Helgoland]]'' that Schrödinger "always kept a number of relationships going at once – and made no secret of his fascination with preadolescent girls". In Ireland, Rovelli writes, he fathered children from two students<ref>{{Cite book |last=Rovelli |first=Carlo |author-link=Carlo Rovelli |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1202306074 |title=Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution |date=2021 |translator-first1=Erica |translator-last1=Segre |translator-first2=Simon |page=20 |translator-last2=Carnell |isbn=978-0-593-32888-0  | publisher=Penguin |location=New York |oclc=1202306074}}</ref> identified in a ''[[Der Standard]]'' article as being a 26-year-old and a married political activist of unknown age.<ref name="derstandard">{{Cite web |title=Erwin Schrödinger: Missbrauchstäter und/oder Rufmordopfer? |url=https://www.derstandard.at/story/2000132657725/erwin-schroedinger-missbrauchstaeter-undoder-rufmordopfer |access-date=2022-02-02 |website=[[Der Standard]] |language=de-AT |archive-date=6 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230206152925/https://www.derstandard.at/story/2000132657725/erwin-schroedinger-missbrauchstaeter-undoder-rufmordopfer |url-status=live }}</ref> Moore's book described both of these episodes, giving the name Kate Nolan as a pseudonym for the first and naming the other as Sheila May, though neither were students.{{sfn|Moore|1989|loc=chapter 10-11}} The book also described an episode of Schrödinger being "infatuated" with a twelve-year-old girl, Barbara MacEntee, while in Ireland. He desisted from attentions after a "serious word" from someone, and later "listed her among the unrequited loves of his life."{{sfn|Moore|1989|loc=chapter 10}} This episode from the book was highlighted by the ''Irish Times'' article and others.<ref name="derstandard"/>

Walter Moore stated that Schrödinger's attitude towards women was "that of a male supremacist",{{sfn|Moore|1989|loc=chapter 8}} but that he disliked the "official misogyny" at Oxford which socially excluded women. [[Helge Kragh]], in his review of Moore's biography, said the "conquest of women, especially very young women, was the salt of life for this sincere romantic and male chauvinist".<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Kragh |first=Helge |date=1990 |title=Review of Schrödinger. Life and Thought |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/4026738 |journal=[[The British Journal for the History of Science]] |author-link=Helge Kragh |volume=23 |issue=2 |pages=231–233 |jstor=4026738 |issn=0007-0874 |access-date=7 February 2022 |archive-date=2 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220202020613/https://www.jstor.org/stable/4026738 |url-status=live }}</ref>

The physics department of [[Trinity College Dublin]] announced in January 2022 that they would recommend a lecture theatre that had been named for Schrödinger since the 1990s be renamed in light of his history of sexual abuse,<ref>{{Cite news |last=Corr |first=Julianne |title=Trinity to drop Schrödinger lecture theatre name over sex abuse |language=en |url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/trinity-to-drop-schroedinger-lecture-theatre-name-over-sex-abuse-52t3v06vq |work=[[The Times]] |date=2022-01-25 |access-date=2022-02-07 |issn=0140-0460 |archive-date=7 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230307163939/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/trinity-to-drop-schroedinger-lecture-theatre-name-over-sex-abuse-52t3v06vq |url-status=live }}</ref> while a picture of the scientist would be removed, and the renaming of an eponymous lecture series would be considered.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Salerno |first=Bella |date=8 February 2022 |title=Schrödinger Lecture Theatre to be renamed the Physics Lecture Theater |work=[[Trinity News]] |url=https://trinitynews.ie/2022/02/schrodinger-lecture-theatre-to-be-renamed-the-physics-lecture-theatre/ |access-date=9 February 2022 |quote=The Schrödinger Lecture Theatre is to be renamed the Physics Lecture Theatre, as it was known during the early to mid 20th century. ... "...it was clear that a large majority of both staff and students now favour changing the name [of] the lecture theatre in the Fitzgerald Building that has borne his name since the 1990s" ... "The current approach continues to honour the indisputable scientific contribution of Erwin Schrödinger, while acknowledging disturbing information – much of it from Schrödinger’s own diaries – which is now also known." ... a portrait of Schrödinger will be removed from the Fitzgerald building. |archive-date=7 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230307163942/https://trinitynews.ie/2022/02/schrodinger-lecture-theatre-to-be-renamed-the-physics-lecture-theatre/ |url-status=live }}</ref>