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Schrödinger's What is Life? —The 75th Anniversary of a Book that Inspired Biology
Author(s) -
Moberg Christina
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
angewandte chemie
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1521-3757
pISSN - 0044-8249
DOI - 10.1002/ange.201911112
Subject(s) - criticism , art history , philosophy , physicist , epistemology , environmental ethics , physics , art , theoretical physics , literature
In his book What is Life?—The Physical Aspect of the Living Cell , Erwin Schrödinger gives a “naïve physicist's” answer to the question “how can the events in space and time which take place within the spatial boundary of a living organism be accounted for by physics and chemistry?” Although his book was met with criticism from some of his colleagues, it has had a large impact and has served as profound inspiration for pioneers of molecular biology as well as for later generations of both scientists and laymen.