What is Life?
Subtitle: The Physical Aspect of the Living Cell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1948
Place of publication: Cambridge, England
Language: eng
Format: Hardback
Number of pages: 100
Description: This little book, by a great scientist is based on a series of lectures delivered under the auspices of the Institute at Trinity College, Dublin, in February 1943. Illustrated by four black and white plates.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Chapter I        The Classical Physicist's Approach to the Subject.; title: Chapter II       The Hereditary Mechanism.; title: Chapter III       Mutations.; title: Chapter IV       The Quantum-Mechanical Evidence.; title: Chapter V        Delbruck's Model Discussed and Tested.; title: Chapter VI       Order,  Disorder, and Entropy.; title: Chapter VII      Is Life based on the Laws of Physics?; title: Epilogue -        On Determinism and Free Will.