Schrödinger at 75 - Recapturing spirit of science

There is no more fundamental question than “what is life?” but that is the very topic up for discussion in Dublin over the next two days as some of the world’s leading scientists take part in an event marking the 75th anniversary of a seminal series of lectures given here in 1943 by Erwin Schrödinger, an Austrian Nobel prize-winning physicist.

At the time, Schrödinger was director of theoretical physics at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, the academic institution set up by Éamon de Valera.