What is Life? The Physical Aspect of the Living Cell. Based on Lectures delivered under the auspices of the Institute at Trinity College, Dublin, in February 1943.

  • Schrödinger, Erwin
  • Cambridge: At The University Press 1948

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8vo, pp. viii, 92 + 1 double-sided plate. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, beige dustjacket printed in green. A touch of spotting. Dustjacket a little soiled and marked, some nicks to folds. Ownership inscription of M.A. Faithfull to flyleaf, scattered marginal notes and underlinings in the same hand.

Notes

The third printing of Schrödinger's book, first published in 1944. His ideas of genetic inheritance expounded upon within predate Crick and Watson's descovery of the double-helix structure of DNA by some years.

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