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Schrödinger’s muse: Cleverness as a strategy for popularizing physics
A few years before Erwin Schrödinger's cat fable-turned-meme of 1935, he delved into a style of science communication all his own. Writing for Koralle magazine, a popular science weekly in Berlin, Schrödinger took readers on a rhetorical jaunt through the peculiarities of natural science. Physics, his muse, was a terrible subject for leisure reading. Made popular by Einstein's relativity revolutions of 1905 & 1915, early attempts at explaining physics to the public defied comprehension. […]