Schrodinger and His Equation — David Clary / Serious Science

Chemist David Clary on Schrodinger’s life, the significance of his equation and how his discoveries started a revolution in molecular biology

"What Schrödinger did is he came up with a general equation that worked for the hydrogen atom and worked for predicting not just the energy levels of the hydrogen atom but also the intensities of the spectral lines: whether the lines in the spectrum are intense or not, he could predict that intensity."
David Clary, Professor of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, University of Oxford

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[TheTwick]

Wow! Wow! I’ll bet he tells that story to every visitor. Thank you for telling it to us.

[joaquin]

Very interesting. Thank you for sharing your knowledge

[peeyushunderrated]

Schrodinger - a very very underrated scientist

[ashishsaranjhna]

It would be better if he told about those equations

[richard]

I anticipated a more technical discussion.

[frankdoherty]

If the two Schrödinger equations exist simultaneously does this imply one exists while one does not ? ? given time

[Mostafa-jfnr]

Am very skeptical about the Schrödinger equation

[mattnewhouse]

You mean he did more than kill a cat in a box????!! No f'ing fun of pop culture, thank you for this though :)