The title of the lecture "What is Life?", was disarming in its simplicity but it was to prove to be profound in its impact. Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger, who had fled from Nazi Germany, was ...

Some of the world's leading scientists are visiting Dublin today and tomorrow to take part in an event marking the 75th anniversary of a seminal series of lectures given here by an Austrian Nobel ...

Exploring across the current frontiers of chemical sciences there is vast uncharted territory to experience the joy of discovery. Far beyond Nature’s design, the creative power of synthetic chemistry ...

75 years ago today one of the most important scientific lectures of all time was delivered in Dublin. The first of the now renowned "What is Life" lecture series was delivered by Erwin Schrödinger at ...

In the winter of 1943, the physicist Erwin Schrödinger invited the Dublin public to hear him deliver a series of lectures he described as “difficult” and that “could not be termed popular”. Some 400 ...

Five Nobel Prize winners are coming to Dublin as part of a conference marking the 75th anniversary of Erwin Schrödinger’s ‘What is Life?’ lectures at TCD. With World War II raging in continental ...

Leading scientist and genomic researcher Dr Craig Venter has expressed his “honour” at being invited to Dublin to recreate one of the greatest moments in Irish scientific history. Dr Venter will be in ...

Seventy years ago, on 5 February 1943, the Nobel prizewinning quantum physicist Erwin Schrödinger gave the first of three public lectures at Trinity College, Dublin. His topic was an unusual one for a ...

Already in 1935 Erwin Schrödinger, one of the inventors of quantum mechanics, knew that when extended to the realm of our everyday experience, the theory permits rather bizarre situations. To ...

“I’m a neuroscientist, and we have a technical expression in the field,” quips consciousness researcher Christoph Koch. “My brain is full.” I know how he feels. After 24 talks delving deep into some ...