Schrödinger at 75—The Future of Biology

In 1943, Erwin Schrödinger, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist, then Director of Theoretical Physics at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS), gave three public lectures entitled ‘What is Life?’ at Trinity College Dublin. Following their publication in 1944 as a book of the same name, these lectures had a tremendous influence on the development of molecular biology. We marked the 75th anniversary of these lectures with an unprecedented gathering of some of the most brilliant minds working in biology today.