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What Is Life?
by Erwin Schrödinger
The physicist's 1944 lectures predicting an aperiodic crystal carrying the genetic code, which inspired Watson and Crick. Short and foundational.
Read it if…
you want the physics that pointed to DNA.
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Skip it if…
you want biology.
Try instead: The Eighth Day of Creation →
Three things you will actually use
- Life feeds on negative entropy.
- Information must be stored physically.
- Physics can ask biology's questions.
Do this first
Read the chapter on the hereditary mechanism.
Our verdict
Schrödinger's question.
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