Gustav Klimt
He (1862 – 1918) was an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. Klimt is noted for his paintings, murals, sketches, and other objets d’art. Klimt’s primary subject was the female body, and his works are marked by a frank eroticism. Forced to leave Austria after the rise of the Nazi regime, Schrödinger worked in Germany, Italy, and eventually Ireland, where he became a professor at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Dublin.
His “Schrödinger’s Cat” thought experiment remains one of science’s most famous paradoxes, symbolizing the mysteries of quantum mechanics and the brilliance of Austrian scientific thought. Born Hedwig Kiesler in Vienna, Hedy Lamarr became one of the most glamorous actresses of Hollywood’s Golden Age. Yet behind her beauty lay a sharp mind — she co-invented a frequency-hopping communication system during World War II, which later became the foundation for Wi-Fi, GPS, and Bluetooth.