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What is life? The physical aspect of the living cell

What is life? The physical aspect of the living cell

Narrative non-fictionClassicsHistory
Pages
92
Published
1944
Language
English

Synopsis

Erwin Schrödinger, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, tackles one of life's biggest questions: how can living organisms be explained by physics and chemistry? Originally delivered as public lectures, this book introduces groundbreaking ideas about genetic information and inspired a generation of scientists. It's a foundational text for anyone curious about the physical basis of life.

Prose complexity
10/10

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Thought-ProvokingIntellectualInformativePhilosophical

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Classics History Philosophy Philosophy & Religion Science Science & Nature Biography Technology

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Erwin Schrödinger

Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger, sometimes written as Erwin Schroedinger or Erwin Schrodinger, was a Nobel Prize-winning Austrian and naturalized Irish physicist who developed a number of fundamental results in quantum theory: the Schrödinger equation provides a way to calculate the wave function of a system and how it changes dynamically in time. --Wikipedia

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Roger Penrose

Sir Roger Penrose OM FRS is a British mathematical physicist, mathematician, philosopher of science and Nobel Laureate in Physics. He is Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics in the University of Oxford and Emeritus Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford. Penrose has made contributions to the mathematical physics of general relativity and cosmology. He has received several prizes and awards, including the 1988 Wolf Prize for physics, which he shared with Stephen Hawking for the Penrose–Hawki...