''What Is Life? The Physical Aspect of the Living Cell'' is a science book written for the lay reader by the physicist Erwin Schrödinger. The book was based on a course of public lectures delivered by Schrödinger. Schrödinger's lecture focused on one important 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?" In the book, Schrödinger introduced the idea of an "aperiodic solid" that c...

Nobel laureate Erwin Schrödinger's What is Life? is one of the great science classics of the twentieth century. It was written for the layman, but proved to be one of the spurs to the birth of molecular biology and the subsequent discovery of DNA. What is Life? appears here together with Mind and Matter, his essay investigating a relationship which has eluded and puzzled philosophers since the earliest times. Brought together with these two classics are Schrödinger's autobiographical sketc...

Conosciuto universalmente come fisico geniale, tra i fondatori delle meccanica dei quanti, e di un’equazione – l’equazione di Schrödinger, appunto – che gli valse il premio Nobel, Erwin Schrödinger fu anche autore di appassionati saggi di filosofia della scienza e, in alcuni casi, di filosofia tout court.Questo libro raccoglie infatti i saggi scritti tra il 1929 e il 1958 e segue tre grandi ambiti di interesse: il dibattito sui fondamenti della meccanica quantistica, le radici della...

Nobel laureate Erwin Schrödinger's What is Life? is one of the great science classics of the twentieth century. A distinguished physicist's exploration of the question which lies at the heart of biology, it was written for the layman, but proved one of the spurs to the birth of molecular biology and the subsequent discovery of the structure of DNA. The philosopher Karl Popper hailed it as a 'beautiful and important book' by 'a great man to whom I owe a personal debt for many exciting discu...

Zu den Büchern, die die Welt bewegten, gehört Erwin Schrödingers Meisterstück naturwissenschaftlicher Prosa »Was ist Leben?«. Die Vorlesungen des Physikers und Nobelpreisträgers sind erstmals 1944 veröffentlicht worden. In der Einführung zur Neuausgabe erklärt der Biologe und Physiker Ernst Peter Fischer, wie Schrödinger damit die Erforschung der physikalischen Struktur genetischer Information begründet hat.

”Hur kan de händelser i tid och rum som sker inom den i rummet begränsade yta som en levande organism utgör beskrivas av fysiken och kemin?”1943 håller den österrikiske fysikern Erwin Schrödinger ett antal föreläsningar vid Trinity College i Dublin. Hans fråga tillhör de som för evigt förundrat mänskligheten: Vad är det som skiljer levande materia från resten av universum? Hur förs livet vidare? Och vad, exakt, är liv?I den här boken introducerar Schrödinger koncept som rev...

L'esprit et la matièreErwin Schrödinger est universellement connu comme l'un des fondateurs de la théorie quantique. Mais L'Esprit et la Matière, publié en 1958, témoigne en outre d'une pensée philosophique et d'options métaphysiques en avance sur son temps. Authentiquement philosophe, et scientifique brillant, Schrödinger était bien placé pour mesurer tout à la fois la nécessité et le coût exorbitant de l'acte fondateur des savoirs objectifs : le retrait ...

Nobel laureate Erwin Schrödinger's What is Life? is one of the great science classics of the twentieth century. A distinguished physicist's exploration of the question which lies at the heart of biology, it was written for the layman, but proved one of the spurs to the birth of molecular biology and the subsequent discovery of the structure of DNA. The philosopher Karl Popper hailed it as a "beautiful and important book" by "a great man to whom I owe a personal debt for many excit...

A Nobel prize winner, a great man and a great scientist, Erwin Schrödinger has made his mark in physics, but his eye scans a far wider horizon: here are two stimulating and discursive essays which summarize his philosophical views on the nature of the world. Schrödinger's world view, derived from the Indian writings of the Vedanta, is that there is only a single consciousness of which we are all different aspects. He admits that this view is mystical and metaphysical and incapable of logic...

In response to repeated requests this classic book on space-time structure by Professor Erwin Schrödinger is now available in the Cambridge Science Classics series. First published in 1950, and reprinted in 1954 and 1960, this lucid and profound exposition of Einstein's 1915 theory of gravitation still provides valuable reading for students and research workers in the field.

Der Wiener Physiker Erwin Schrödinger (1887-1961) leistete bahnbrechende Arbeiten zur Wellenmechanik und Quantentheorie, für die er unter anderem mit dem Nobelpreis ausgezeichnet wurde. Untrennbar mit seinem Namen verbunden sind die von ihm entdeckte "Schrödinger-Gleichung" sowie sein berühmtes Gedankenexperiment "Schrödinger's Katze". Die vorliegende Audio-Edition versammelt die beiden einzigen vollständig erhaltenen Originaltonaufnahmen Schrödingers: einen Vortrag von 1952 in deutscher S...

Nobel laureate Erwin Schrödinger was one of the most distinguished scientists of the twentieth century; his lectures on the history and philosophy of science are legendary. 'Nature and the Greeks' and 'Science and Humanism' makes available for the first time in many years the texts of two of Schrödinger's most famous lecture series. 'Nature and the Greeks' offers a comprehensive historical account of the twentieth-century scientific world picture, tracing modern science back to the earlies...