WhatIslife.com is Life science and philosophy
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- In 1944, the physicist Erwin Schroedinger, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1933 (together with Paul Dirac) published a short volume called 'What is Life?' summarizing the emerging atomistic foundation of the biological sciences in the 1930s and '40s. Schroedinger proposed a correlation of the physical properties of DNA as an aperiodic 'crystal' with its function of storing the genetic information of every living organism. A few years later in 1953, Francis Crick and James Watson solved the high-resolution structure of DNA confirming Schroedinger's theoretical considerations, while themselves proposing a mechanism of DNA replication based on the structure of this molecule. A decade after Watson and Crick, the syntax of DNA, the genetic code, had been determined, and the biological, chemical, and physical pieces quickly fell into place establishing a picture of molecular biology which matured into a scientific fact establishing the foundation of the tremendously successful biotechnology.
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