In 1971, the schools of Celtic Studies and Theoretical Physics moved to a new building at 10 Burlington Road, where they are still situated. Schrödinger himself did not live to see this development. He returned to Austria in 1956, where he died in January 1961. Heitler left the School in 1949, shortly after the appointment of John Lighton Synge as Senior Professor in 1948.

A plaque was placed on the wall at no. 65 Merrion Square at the time of the move to Burlington Road in memory of the late professor Schrödinger. A second plaque was added in memory of Professor Synge after his death in 1995.

While Schrödinger was Director of the School of Theoretical Physics, a large number of Scholars had temporary post-doc positions at the Institute. In particular, there were also two young women researchers, Sheila Power and Cecile Morette. The latter was French, and she later established the well-known annual summer school of physics in Les Houches, near Chamonix, France.

Sheila Power (later Tinney) was from Galway. In 1941, she was one of the first Irish-born and -raised women to be awarded a Ph.D. in the mathematical sciences. She was then appointed assistant lecturer at UCD and got a fellowship (scholarship) under Schrödinger at the Institute. At DIAS, she attended lectures by Paul Dirac on the unification of relativity and quantum theory (quantum field theory) in 1942, which stimulated her to do research on Compton scattering.

She was promoted to lecturer at UCD in 1945 and spent time at the Princeton Institute of Advanced Studies between 1948 and 1949. She retained her association with DIAS and became Research Associate from 1954 until 1957. She became associate professor of mathematical physics at UCD in 1966 and retired in 1978. She died on 27 March 2010. Her portrait now hangs in the conference room at 10 Burlington Road.

* If finishing the cycle during office hours, collect a postcard from the stand outside DIAS.*