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The period going from 1928 to 1935 looks like a puzzle for the Schrödinger scholars. One usually considers that, after having realized the failure of his early interpretative Tattempts, Schrödinger accepted the broad lines of the Copenhagen interpretation and reverted more and more of his scientific attention to non-quantum mechanical branches of physics. However, the idea that Schrödinger agreed with the current views on quantum mechanics does not fit very well with his increasing tendency to depart from quantum mechanical studies. According to L. Wessels¹, the reason why he devoted his work to other theoretical fields was that, at bottom, he could not accept the loss of any physical picture. His behaviour could well prove, even against some of his explicit assertions, that his acceptance of the Copenhagen interpretation was, to say the least, very critical. But I think we can go beyond this opposition between texts and scientific behaviour by reading carefully the papers in which Schrödinger expressed his positions during the period 1928–1935, and by classifying them according to their expected audience.

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-1772-9_3

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