A Life of Erwin Schrodinger (Canto original series) - Softcover

Moore, Walter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521469341 ISBN 13: 9780521469340

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Synopsis

Erwin Schrödinger was a brilliant and charming Austrian, one of the greatest scientists of the twentieth century, and a man with a passionate interest in people and ideas. He was best known for the discovery of wave mechanics, which won him the Nobel Prize for Physics, but his most influential book What Is Life? served to attract some of his brightest scientific contemporaries into molecular biology.

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A Life of Erwin Schrodinger Erwin Schroedinger was best known for the discovery of wave mechanics, which won him the Nobel Prize for Physics. This book interweaves Schroedinger's scientific work with his intense personal friendships, his interest in mysticism, and the turbulent background of contemporary political events. Full description

Review:

'The best book available today on the life and work of Schrödinger.' The Times Higher Education Supplement

'It is an attempt to analyze a soul, and in that respect it surpasses even The Double Helix by James Watson in its examination of the most visceral drives of a great scientist.' The New York Times Book Review

'A bestseller among scientific biographies.' Science

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0521469341
• ISBN 13: 9780521469340
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 364