- Erwin Schrodinger’s education came from the University of Vienna and Akademisches Gymnasium. Erwin was taught at home by tutors and parents until he was 11. When Erwin attended the University, he inspired a young physicist named, Friedrich Hasenhörl. Schrödinger obtained his PhD in physics and took a position with the university, where he remained until World War I. He then served as an artillery officer for the Italian front. During his nobel acceptance speech in 1933, he said that if Hasenhörl was still alive, he would be the one receiving the award. He changed jobs several times before being offered the chair in theoretical physics at the University of Zurich in Switzerland in 1921. In 1927, Schrodinger was offered the job of replacing Max Planck after he retired from the University of Berlin. Erwin accepted.