Cafe Schrödinger

One of the most famous Viennese was Erwin Schrödinger, the father of quantum mechanics and whose equation has caused physicists and philosophers a lot of grief over the past eight decades.

The route of tram 1, which we have been using a lot this week, includes a stop in front of Cafe Schrödinger at the Technische Universität Wien (Vienna University of Technology). The cafe's logo uses Schrödinger's signature.

I decided to find out more Schrödinger's life in Vienna on the web. It turns out that his alma mater was Universität Wien (University of Vienna) across town, and not TUW. But one of his grandfathers was a professor at TUW (which was called Technische Hochschule then). I am still puzzled by the presence of a cafe bearing his name on the wrong campus. But then there is Cafe Einstein near UW, and Einstein did not spend a substantial amount of time in Vienna (as far as I know). Poor Boltzmann did not get a cafe named after him in his home town.