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Nobel laureate Erwin Schrödinger's What is Life? is one of the great science classics of the twentieth century. A distinguished physicist's exploration of the question which lies at the heart of biology, it was written for the layman, but proved one of the spurs to the birth of molecular... read more

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This little book arose from a course of public lectures, delivered by a theoretical physicist to an audience of about four hundred which did not substancially dwindle, though warned at the outset that the subject-matter was a difficult one and that the lectures could not be termed popular, even though the physicist's most deraded weapon, mathematical deduction, would hardly be utilized.

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  1. Erwin Schrodinger (Author)
 

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