What Is Life?

"What Is Life?" is a classic of science that tackles the fundamental question of the nature of life from the perspective of physics and chemistry. Schrödinger, one of the most distinguished physicists of the 20th century, tries to explain how biological phenomena within a living organism can be understood through the laws of physics, introducing concepts such as the "aperiodic crystal" to describe a molecule that carries genetic information. The book introduced ideas that inspired the development of molecular biology and influenced researchers such as James Watson and Francis Crick on the path to discovering the structure of DNA.