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The 26 pages that link to Erwin Schrödinger, each with the reason it gives.

• Max PlanckRelated: Schrödinger’s mature theory developed the quantum physics Planck’s radiation work initiated.

• Werner HeisenbergCompared with: His wave mechanics offered a rival-looking formulation that proved mathematically equivalent to matrix mechanics.

• University of ViennaRelated: He held a professorship at Vienna when he made major contributions to quantum theory.

• Paul DiracRelated: Schrödinger’s formulation offered a complementary route to the quantum mechanics Dirac helped unify.

• Old quantum theoryRelated: His wave formulation offered a new route beyond the old quantum rules.

• Hermann WeylRelated: Weyl’s mathematical treatment of quantum mechanics developed alongside Schrödinger’s wave formulation.

• Measurement problemRelated: His cat thought experiment made the tension between superposition and definite outcomes vivid.

• Louis de BroglieRelated: De Broglie’s matter waves inspired Schrödinger’s wave-mechanical formulation.

• Klein–Gordon equationRelated: Schrödinger derived an early form of the relativistic equation before developing his nonrelativistic theory.

• Quantum fluctuationRelated: Wave mechanics supplied a way to calculate quantum probability distributions.

• WKB approximationRelated: The new Schrödinger equation provided the principal problem to which WKB was applied.

• BiophysicsRelated: His book helped motivate physicists to investigate molecular biology.

• Coherent stateRelated: His 1926 work described oscillator wave packets that retain their shape during motion.

• Walter HeitlerRelated: Heitler’s chemical-bonding calculation applied the quantum mechanics Schrödinger had helped formulate.

• Wave mechanicsRelated: He formulated the theory’s defining equation in 1926.

• Bohr–Einstein debatesRelated: Schrödinger’s work and cat thought experiment amplified questions about quantum descriptions.

• Schrödinger’s catRelated: He devised the cat example to challenge a literal reading of quantum superposition.

• Nonlinear Schrödinger equationRelated: His linear equation supplied the mathematical form later extended with nonlinear interactions.

• Quantum indeterminacyRelated: His wave equation predicts continuous state evolution despite probabilistic measurement outcomes.

• Free particleRelated: His equation gives the standard quantum description of a free particle.

• History of atomic theoryRelated: His equation replaced Bohr's fixed electron orbits with quantum wavefunctions.

• Wolfgang PaulRelated: Paul completed his doctorate under Schrödinger at the University of Berlin.

• History of quantum mechanicsRelated: His approach offered a distinct mathematical formulation equivalent to matrix mechanics.

• Ilya PrigogineCompared with: His account of biological order provides an earlier point of comparison for Prigogine’s framework.

• Mathematical formulation of quantum mechanicsRelated: His wave formulation became a standard representation of quantum states.

• Relativistic quantum mechanicsRelated: His earlier relativistic wave equation led to the Klein–Gordon equation, while his standard equation is nonrelativistic.