What is Life? The Physical Aspects

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E. Schrodinger. What Is Life The Physical Aspect ofthe Living Cell. Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press (1944). 

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Up to now synthetic chemistry has been the dominant part of our reflection. Now synthetic biology comes in to meet the requirements of the sophisticated observer who wants to be informed about the newest development. At any rate, the fundamental question, WHAT IS LIFE comes up. Under this title, two essays have been published one by Erwin Schrodinger [140] in 1944 and the other by J. B. S. Haldane [141] in 1949. While the former focused on the physical aspect of the living cell, the latter considered life essentially as a pattern of chemical processes. A very pragmatic point of view was formulated in 1994 by Antonio Lazcano [142] with the statement Life is like music, you can describe it, but not define. ... 

Fluorescence is presented in this book from the point of view of a physical chemist, with emphasis on the understanding of physical and chemical concepts. Efforts have been made to make this book easily readable by researchers and students from any scientific community. For this purpose, the mathematical developments have been limited to what is strictly necessary for understanding the basic phenomena. Further developments can be found in accompanying boxes for aspects of major conceptual interest. The main equations are framed so that, in a first reading, the intermediate steps can be skipped. The aim of the boxes is also to show illustrations chosen from a variety of fields. Thanks to such a presentation, it is hoped that this book will favor the relationship between various scientific communities, in particular those that are relevant to physicochemical sciences and life sciences. 

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