Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger (12 August 1887 - 4 January 1961) was an austrian physicist who was one of the fathers of quantum mechanics. He is famed for a number of important contributions to physics, especially the Schrödinger equation. In 1933 he received the Nobel Prize in Physics. The svg-file based on a photo from wikicommon (ca. 1933). For more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Schrödinger