What is Life? The Next Fifty Years: Speculation. Murphy/O'Neill<|

What is Life? The Next Fifty YearsSpeculations on the Future of Biology\nAuthor(s): Michael P. Murphy, Luke A. J. O'Neill\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521599399, 978-0521599399\nSynopsis\nErwin Schrdinger's book What is Life? had a tremendous influence on the development of molecular biology, stimulating scientists such as Watson and Crick to explore the physical basis of life. Much of the appeal of Schrdinger's book lay in its approach to the central problems in biology - heredity and how organisms use energy to maintain order - from a physicist's perspective. At Trinity College, Dublin a number of outstanding scientists from a range of disciplines gathered to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of What is Life? and following Schrdinger's example fifty years previously, presented their views on the current central problems in biology. The contributors to this volume include Stephen Jay Go.