How Einstein and Schrödinger conspired to kill a cat

The rise of fascism disturbed the scientists' friendship — and shaped Schrödinger’s cat fable. In this fascinating piece from Nautilus, David Kaiser tells the story of how a looming World War and the dismantling of German intellectual life spurred Erwin Schrödinger’s talk of balls in boxes, into explosions, poisons, and morbid calculations of life and death.