The Nobel Prize During Schrodinger's time in Zurich as a professor would be the most important in his career as a physicist. Research in theoretical physics would eventually spark, "Schrodinger's interest in explaining that an electron in an atom would move as a wave."[3] Schrodinger would go on to write an inspiration for this was from De Broglie's proposed theory of wave mechanics. While Schrodinger might have been considered a late bloomer by making his discovery in his late 30's while most other theoretical physicists make theirs in their 20's.