
Erwin Schrödinger
1887 - 1961
Erwin Schrödinger was a physicist who formulated the Schrödinger equation, which is used to describe the behavior of quantum particles.
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This page contains a list of the greatest Austrians Physicists. The pantheon dataset contains 863 Physicists, 21 of which were born in Austria. This makes Austria the birth place of the 8th most number of Physicists behind Italy and Netherlands.
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the top 10 most legendary Austrian Physicists of all time. This list of famous Austrian Physicists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity. Visit the rankings page to view the entire list of Austrian Physicists.

1887 - 1961
Erwin Schrödinger was a physicist who formulated the Schrödinger equation, which is used to describe the behavior of quantum particles.

1878 - 1968
Lise Meitner is most famous for her work in nuclear physics. She was the first person to realize that Otto Hahn's experiments with uranium were producing nuclear fission.

1900 - 1958
Wolfgang Pauli is most famous for his exclusion principle, which states that no two electrons in an atom can occupy the same quantum state.

1844 - 1906
Ludwig Boltzmann is most famous for his kinetic theory of gases, which states that the kinetic energy of a gas is proportional to the number of molecules in the gas.

1803 - 1853
Christian Doppler is most famous for his discovery of the Doppler effect. The Doppler effect is the change in frequency and wavelength of a wave for an observer moving relative to the source of the wave.

1883 - 1964
Victor Francis Hess is most famous for his discovery of cosmic rays.

1908 - 2002
Austrian American theoretical physicist (1908–2002)

b. 1945
Austrian quantum physicist

1923 - 2016
American physicist (1923–2016)

1904 - 1979
Austrian-born British nuclear physicist
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