Austrian physicist who developed wave mechanics (the Schrödinger equation) as an alternative formulation of quantum mechanics, and whose book What Is Life? predicted the existence of a genetic code before DNA was discovered.
Formulated the Schrödinger equation — the governing equation of quantum wave mechanics — and proposed Schrödinger's cat as a thought experiment exposing the measurement problem in quantum mechanics; separately predicted in What Is Life? that genetic information must be stored in an 'aperiodic crystal,' leading directly to Watson and Crick.
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