About this book

The physicist's question that inspired molecular biology.

The author

1887–1961 · Austrian physicist

Profession: Physicist, Mathematician, Professor
Worked at: Humboldt University of Berlin, Vienna, Oxford, Ghent University
Studied at: Vienna, Oxford
Studied under: Franz S. Exner, Friedrich Hasenöhrl
Prizes: Nobel Prize in Physics (1933), Max Planck Medal (1937), Matteucci Medal (1927), Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order, Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1949), Fellow of the American Physical Society, Haitinger Prize (1920), Erwin Schrödinger Prize (1956), Prize of the City of Vienna for Natural Sciences (1956), Prix Paul Doistau-Émile Blutet de l’Information Scientifique (2005), Pour le Mérite

His lectures What Is Life? inspired Watson and Crick.

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3 editions

First published 1944

Earliest edition listed: 1951 · University Press

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