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THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX: SCHRODINGER IN IRELAND
Stein on his travels Ston. Then Rick travels across the border into Albania, where he is joined by his son Jack for the next leg of the adventure.
The father and son savour some local delicacies, including chicken jufka and kokoretsi.
In Rick’s own kitchen on the Greek island of Symi, the chef cooks traditional Albanian dishes, including Lepur Comlek and Tave Kosi.
RTE One, 7.30pm
IN this fascinating documentary, Prof Luke O’neill looks at the life and times of Erwin Schrodinger – the Nobel prize winning physicist.
Schrodinger came to live in Ireland in the 1940s to give a series of lectures in Trinity College Dublin entitled “What is Life?”.
It would lead to one of the greatest developments in modern science. And 75 years on from those momentous lectures, Prof O’neill, a world-leading immunologist, has some questions.
Who was Erwin Schrödinger and what exactly was the impact of his work? And how on earth did a Nobel prize-winning physicist end up in Ireland just before the outbreak of WWII?
To answer the last question, Schrodinger was working in Berlin in the 1930s when the rise of Hitler’s Nazi party made his position untenable.
Though not Jewish himself he was considered politically unreliable and he was forced to leave the country.
And so, Schrodinger gladly accepted De Valera’s timely invitation and came to Dublin as DIAS’S first director of theoretical physics.
Schrodinger influenced generations of scientists to “think outside the box” and now in 2018, Dublin played host to a gathering of the greatest minds from all disciplines who came together to consider the next big questions of our era.
Prof O’neill meets with some of the Nobel Prize winners to find out how Schrodinger influenced them and what they feel are the next great challenges to researchers around the world.