How many different jobs did Schr6dinger have? What jobs did he turn down and why? Was he a good teacher? What did Schr6dinger do before the wave equation, and what did he do after it? Why did he seek a wave equation for quantum mechanics, how did he derive it, and how did he interpret the wave function? How were the early Nobel prizes for quantum theory decided? Moore does much more than answer these technical questions. He paints a vivid picture of Schr6dinger as a person and what it was like to be a physicist in an era marked by two world wars.