20th CenturyNatural Science

Schrödinger: What Is Life?

A physicist asks how living things keep order, and guesses that genes hold a code in a molecule.

✎ Being written
Volume
56 of the 1990 set
Author
Erwin Schrödinger (1887–1961)
Work
What Is Life? 1944

Ideas: Plants and animals Matter, atoms and elements

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