What is Life?, by Erwin Schrodinger

WHAT IS LIFE?: THE PHYSICAL ASPECT OF THE LIVING CELL

by Erwin Schrodinger
Based on lectures delivered under the auspices of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies at Trinity College, Dublin, in February 1943.

To the memory of My Parents

Table of Contents:

Preface
Chapter 1: The Classical Physicist's Approach to the Subject
Chapter 2: The Heriditary Mechanism
Chapter 3: Mutations
Chapter 4: The Quantum-Mechanical Evidence
Chapter 5: Delbruck's Model Discussed and Tested
Chapter 6: Order, Disorder and Entropy
Chapter 7: Is Life Based on the Laws of Physics?