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There, De Valera explained that it would take about a year to get the legislation passed through the Irish Parliament to set up the Institute for Advanced Studies. De Valera also had an interest in Celtic Studies. He constructed an Act to "make provision for the establishment and maintenance in Dublin of an Institute for Advanced Studies, consisting a School of Celtic Studies and a School of Theoretical Physics". The strange mix of Celtic Studies and Theoretical Physics was to produce some criticism from the opposition members in the Irish Parliament that would delay the passing of the Act.

Things were now very uncertain for Schrodinger and Anny. However, as has frequently been the case in Schrodinger's story when he was unsure about his future, he then received a very welcome letter. This was from the Fondation Francqui in Belgium offering him a Visiting Professorship at the University of Ghent. He at once accepted. As was often his method to announce the next move in his career, Schrodinger arranged for Nature on 31 December 1938 to report :

Professor Erwin Schrodinger has been appointed by the Fondation Francqui as a Visiting Professor for the next six months to a "Chaire Francqui" in the University of Ghent. His address is Laboratory of Physics, Plateaustraat 22, Gand, Belgium.

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== Wave Mechanics ==