"Beware of the person of one book."
— Thomas Aquinas

Cambridge: At the University Press, 1944. [Science] First edition. Slim octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.viii; 91. Publisher's green cloth, gilt titles to spine. Illustrated with two double sided plates and in-text diagrams. Neat ownership in ink to flyleaf, binding lightly handled with some light marking. Uncommon. Near fine. A landmark text on the origins of molecular biology; Schrödinger's 'What Is Life?' was cited as a major influence by geneticists Watson, Crick and Wilkins who won a Nobel prize in Medicine for the discovery of the DNA double helix. Item #61097
Price: £495.00