Erwin Schrodinger. (1887-1961) was born and died in Vienna, the city where he studied physics. Later he taught at different universities, such as Zurich, until 1927. In that year he moved to Berlin to succeed Max Planck in the chair. When Hitler came to power, he left Germany and lived in different places, including Oxford and Dublin. In 1933 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to the study of atomic theory, when he had already formulated the equation that bears his name, descriptive of the waves of matter. In 1956, after 30 years of absence, he was able to return to Vienna where a special chair was created for him. His intellectual interests were not limited to physics. He was therefore a great humanist.