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Nov 10, 2010 · Schrödinger's “little book” is, itself, as brilliant as warranted by its reputation. But, half a century later, and at the occasion of its honouring, perhaps we may dare to ask a new question: is the central thesis of the book right?
Sep 3, 2018 · Schrödinger’s lectures were collected into what he called his “little book”, What Is Life?, published in 1944 (see Nature 560, 548–550; 2018). Some consider it one of the most influential ...
In What is Life, Schrödinger attempts to provide a new understanding of living organisms by using thermodynamics as a backdrop. Life seems so organized. If it were subject to the second law of thermodynamics, we would expect that molecules would decay to lower energy states. They do not.
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Below is a collection of extracts from Schrödinger’s highly influential 1944 book What is life? with some comments added by me, mainly trying (a) to clarify what he was saying about the biological importance of features of (bio) chemistry that cannot be explained in pre-quantum
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Erwin Schrödinger has 83 books on Goodreads with 37846 ratings. Erwin Schrödinger’s most popular book is What Is Life? with Mind and Matter and Autobiogr...
Jun 16, 2021 · 2019 marked the 75th anniversary of the publication of Erwin Schrödinger’s What Is Life?, a short book described by Roger Penrose in his preface to a reprint of this classic as “among the most influential scientific writings of the 20th century.”
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Sep 1, 2018 · A conference in Trinity College Dublin – where Schrödinger gave his famous talks in 1943 – will bring some of the brightest scientific minds together to discuss the future of biology.
