Heinrich Pelzer

Physicist who published a competing hidden-variable model in 1944

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Last updated Oct 24, 2026

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Lost Schrödinger manuscript reveals his hidden-variable quantum model

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Erwin Schrödinger wrote a three-page reply in late November 1944 arguing that physics could not rule out a deterministic universe. He never published it, and the draft, filed as W33-781/9, sat in Vienna's Schrödinger archive until this year.

Updated Oct 24