What is Life?
With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches

I am convinced that theoretical physicists are the true mystics of our age. Being, on the whole, smart people, they have developed some useful tricks to reduce the occupational hazards of their calling; the most dangerous of these hazards is the ever-present possibility of being killed by an angry m......more

I love reading explanations of biology from physicists; what once were magic and collections of 'just-so' stories become explanations of how and why processes occur the way they do. This book was single-handedly responsible for convincing dozens of physicists to chase issues biological and given I a......more

شرودنجر هو أحد أعلام الفيزياء و بالذات نظرية الكم فهو أحد ثلاثة لهم أسماء رنانة في صياغة الفيزياء الحديثة بعد آينشتين و هم ماكس بانك و هايزنبرج بالإضافة إليه. هو هنا يتصدى لقضية لا تخصه و لكن من زاوية يمتلكها تماما و هي البحث في ماهية الحياة من الناحية الفيزيائية. كيف تعمل هذه الألات الضخمة التي تسمى......more

In 1943, a scientist, at one remove from the world of biology, gave a series of lectures in Dublin - called provocatively ‘What Is Life?’. Erwin Schrödinger, had shared the Nobel prize in physics in 1933 for laying the foundations of wave mechanics. In his Dublin lectures, Schrödinger addressed what......more