Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander SchrÃ dinger ( \* August 12th , 1887 in Vienna-Erdberg ; â January 4th 1961 in Vienna ) was an Austrian Physicist . He was one of the founders of quantum mechanics and won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1933 .
Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander SchrÃ dinger ( ; 12 August 1887 â `` 4 January 1961 ) was a physicist and theoretical biologist who was one of the fathers of quantum mechanics , and is famed for a number of important contributions to physics , especially the SchrÃ dinger equation , for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1933 .