Description: What Is Life? : The Intellectual Pertinence of Erwin Schrodinger, Paperback by Gumbrecht, Hans Ulrich; Harrison, Robert Pogue; Hendrickson, Michael R.; Laughlin, Robert B., ISBN 0804769168, ISBN-13 9780804769167, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Austrian scientist Schrödinger (1) is best known for his theory of wave mechanics, which is used today from chemistry to nuclear physics and garnered him the 1933 Nobel Prize for Physics. Recently, however, some have found a 1943 lecture series of his published the following year sets out the mathematical basis for biogenetics including the very notion of the genetic code. Scholars of literature, pathology, and physics ponder his thoughts on life, where they might have come from, the place they held in his life and work, and implications for quantum mechanics. First published in German as Geist und Materie--Was ist Leben? Zur Aktualität von Erwin Schrödinger by Suhrkamp Verlag Frankfurt am Main in 2008. No index is provided. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()
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Book Title: What Is Life? : the Intellectual Pertinence of Erwin Schrödinger
Number of Pages: 160 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication Year: 2011
Item Height: 0.4 in
Topic: Cultural Heritage, Europe / Germany, General, Life Sciences / Biology, Physics / General, Science & Technology
Genre: Philosophy, Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Item Weight: 7.3 Oz
Item Length: 8.5 in
Author: Michael R. Hendrickson, Robert B. Laughlin, Hans Ulrich. Gumbrecht, Robert Pogue Harrison
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
