Name: What is Life? Paperback (Canto Classics)
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Author: Erwin Schrödinger
ISBN: 9781107604667

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What is Life? Paperback (Canto Classics)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Erwin Schrödinger

Preface by

Roger Penrose

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Year

2012

Language

English

Pages

184

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.3 x 13.7 x 1.0 cm

Weight

0.27 kg.

ISBN

1107604664

ISBN13

9781107604667

Synopsis "What is Life? Paperback (Canto Classics) "

Nobel laureate Erwin Schrödinger's What is Life? is one of the great science classics of the twentieth century. It was written for the layman, but proved to be one of the spurs to the birth of molecular biology and the subsequent discovery of DNA. What is Life? appears here together with Mind and Matter, his essay investigating a relationship which has eluded and puzzled philosophers since the earliest times. Brought together with these two classics are Schrödinger's autobiographical sketches, which offer a fascinating account of his life as a background to his scientific writings.

Erwin Schrödinger

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Erwin Schrödinger (Vienna, 1887-1961) was the creator of wave mechanics and one of the scientists who most contributed to the development of atomic physics during the first half of the 20th century. Other fields in which he made significant contributions include thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, and the theory of relativity. In 1933, he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with Paul Dirac. Erwin Schrödinger is the author of a perennial classic: What is Life?, and other fundamental texts, such as Mind and Matter and Nature and the Greeks, all published in the Metatemas collection.

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