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Erwin Schrodinger

Theoretical physicist

Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist known for the Schrodinger equation and foundational work in quantum mechanics.

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Books Erwin Schrodinger has mentioned

Erwin Schrodinger mentioned or cited these books. They are not counted as direct recommendations.

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The Perennial Philosophy

by Aldous Huxley · 1945

Schrodinger described The Perennial Philosophy as very appropriately titled and beautiful.

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The Perennial Philosophy

The Perennial Philosophy reference page attributes Schrodinger's description to page 92 of What Is Life? The Physical Aspect of the Living Cell.

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The page states that Erwin Schrodinger, in What Is Life?, described Huxley's book as very appropriately titled and beautiful, with the citation pointing to Schrodinger's 1962 Cambridge University Press edition.

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Books by Erwin Schrodinger

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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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