What Is Life?

by Erwin Schrodinger · 1944

Erwin Schrodinger's influential lectures connecting physics, heredity, and the molecular basis of life.

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Erwin Schrodinger · Nobel physicist

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Frank WilczekTheoretical physicist; 2004 Nobel laureate

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