Works From the Library and Lab of Erwin Schrodinger:

Acquired from the heirs of his lab assistant and never offered for sale before

Erwin Schrödinger was a Nobel Prize-winning Austrian physicist who developed a number of fundamental results in the field of quantum theory: the Schrödinger equation provides a way to calculate the wave function of a system and how it changes dynamically in time. He is considered, along with Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg and others as one of the most influential scientists of the 20th century.

Collection of printed works, dating from 1900 through his death around 1960, covering a wide range of subjects, and featuring many of his most celebrated works, including:

– A copy of his very first work, Über die Leitung der Elektrizität auf der Oberfläche von Isolatoren an feuchter Luft, about the conduction of electricity on the surface of insulators in moist air, published a month after it first appeared in an academic publication, Vienna, 1910, 2 copies, likely belonging to Schrodinger;

– Quantisierung als Eigenwertproblem, Quantization as an eigenvalue problem, the work that brought his research into the general arena and helped launch his great fame. Offprints from: Annalen der Physik, 4 Folge, Band 80, 1926, No. 13. – With the ownership stamp of Schrodinger on the front.

– Zur Dynamik elastisch gekoppelter Punktsysteme, On the dynamics of elastically coupled point systems, with the publisher imprint: “Metzger & Wittig, Leipzig, April 30, 1914,” and notation sending this copy to Schrodinger – Schrodinger’s copy

A printed copy in German, published in Stockholm in 1934, of his December 1933 speech accepting the Nobel Prize, likely Schrodinger’s copy

There are also approximately 20 works of other scientists, including Heisenberg, Hilbert and Hopf.