His intellectual superiority had been evident since childhood: at school, he had always had the highest mark in every subject. His schoolmates were used to Erwin knowing absolutely everything, so that decades later one of them would still remember the only question a teacher had ever posed to which young Schrödinger had not known the answer: what is the capital of Montenegro? His reputation as a genius followed him to the University of Vienna, where his undergraduate colleagues referred to him as The Schrödinger.
