What is life? The physical aspect of the living cell

Name: What is life? The physical aspect of the living cell
ISBN: 9780521093972

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1944186 pagesCambridge University Press

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.

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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

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...