What Is Life?
Erwin SchrodingerOne of the rare books that directly changed the direction of a science.
Why It's Lindy
One of the rare books that directly changed the direction of a science. It inspired Crick, Watson, and much of the generation that discovered the molecular structure of heredity, making it a primary document in the birth of modern biology.
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Schrodinger's short but catalytic meditation on heredity, order, and the physical basis of life. Written for a general audience in 1944, it helped frame the central question that molecular biology would spend the next decades answering.
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One of the rare books that directly changed the direction of a science. It inspired Crick, Watson, and much of the generation that discovered the molecular structure of heredity, making it a primary document in the birth of modern biology.
What is What Is Life? about?
Schrodinger's short but catalytic meditation on heredity, order, and the physical basis of life. Written for a general audience in 1944, it helped frame the central question that molecular biology would spend the next decades answering.
