A lot of this is very much in the spirit of "What Is Life?", though, you know, more modern and nuanced in its handling of the entropy question. This parallel occurred to me specifically regarding ...

Physicist Erwin Schrödinger helped to change attitudes to molecular biology. Credit: akg-images/IMAGNO/Votava. In the winter of 1943, the physicist Erwin Schrödinger invited the Dublin public to ...

Then I want to start with Erwin Schrodinger’s stunning insight in “What Is Life,” that life cannot be based on periodic crystals because they are too dull, but on aperiodic crystals that ...

Schrodinger's cat When Einstein and two co-authors published their famous rebuttal of the Copenhagen interpretation in 1935, fellow Copenhagen critic Erwin Schrodinger wrote to him in support.

In fact, Erwin Schrödinger himself didn't present his "cat" idea as a proposed experiment. He didn't devise it to ask deep questions about the role of a human being in the observation process.

More than 80 years ago, Erwin Schrödinger, a theoretical physicist steeped in the philosophy of Schopenhauer and the Upanishads, delivered a series of public lectures at Trinity College, Dublin ...