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Because Schrodinger used the example of the life or death of a cat, it has caught the imagination of the public more than any other of his works to the present day. Accordingly, "Schrodinger's Cat states" is also a phrase used by physicists in connection with a microscopic quantum effect having an influence on a macroscopic phenomenon.

=== Back to Austria ===

Schrodinger visited Austria in 1935 to give his guest lectures in Vienna. He also visited Graz where his old friend Kohlrausch was based. The possibility of a post there was discussed further. After returning to Oxford, he wrote to Hans Thirring on 1936:

In the last four weeks (and more) I have let the Austrian affair go through my head and I regretted that after the visit to Graz and the second conversation in the Ministry I could no longer talk to you in a frank manner.

The following dream has now developed for me. Couldn't you get people around to turn the professorship in Graz into something that plays between Graz and Vienna? I don't want to officially accept a full teaching commitment in Graz, but would like to do a small amount also in Vienna.

I would like to go back. I felt so warm and at home in Austria during the weeks I was there.

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By the spring of 1936, Schrodinger was having detailed negotiations with the federal authorities about a position back in Austria. And finally by the summer of 1936, Schrodinger had settled the arrangements for a Chair at the University of Graz and an Honorary Professorship at the University of Vienna.

== Wave Mechanics ==