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=== University of Vienna ===
==== Friedrich Hasenohrl ====
Friedrich Hasenohrl, Schrodinger's lecturer, had studied with Boltzmann and the Dutch Nobel Prize winner Hendrik Lorentz. Hasenohrl was invited to the 1st Solvay Conference in Brussels in 1911 which was also attended by Albert Einstein, Max Planck, Marie Curie and the British physicsist Frederick Lindemann -- who later recruited Schrodinger to the University of Oxford. Hasenohrl was killed in the First World War in 1915.
==== Wilhelm Wirtinger ====
Through the mathematics course of Professor Wilhelm Wirtinger, Schrodinger mastered in depth the methods of differential equations which would be crucial for his later breakthrough in wave mechanics.
==== Hans Thirring ====
In the University of Vienna, Schrodinger met Hans Thirring. Thirring was one year younger. He had a career in theoretical physics and corresponded with Schrodinger on a very regular basis. He played a key role in bringin Schrodinger back to Austria from Oxford in 1936 and again from Dublin in 1956.
==== Franz Exner ====
Schrodinger also attended the lectures in practical physics given by the Director of the Physical Chemistry Institute Franz Exner. In Exner's department, important work had been done on synthesizing radium chloride, which was sent to Rutherford in the UK who used the material for discoveries on the structure of the atom. Exner had also been involved in providing uranium compounds used by Marie and Pierre Curie for their work on radioactivity.
==== Victor Hess ====
Exner trained many eminent physicists, including Victor Hess, who won the Nobel Prize for the discovery of cosmic radiation. Later, Hess became a colleague of Schrodinger's after he had moved to Graz in Austria from Oxford.
==== Master Thesis ====
Schrodinger performed an experimental project under the supervision of Exner on the conduction of electricity on the surfaces of insulators in moist air. He spoke on this work at a meeting of the Academy of Sciences in Vienna in 1910. His thesis enabled him to be granted the degree of Dr.phil, which nowadays is equivalent to a Master's Degree.
=== Arrive at Oxford, Nobel Prize ===
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