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What Is Life?

1944 non-fiction work by Erwin Schrödinger
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What Is Life?
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What Is Life?

Summary

What Is Life? is a written work[1]. What Is Life? ranks in the top 5% of written_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (214 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • What Is Life? authored Erwin Schrödinger[3].
  • What Is Life?'s image is recorded as Erwin Schrödinger (1933).jpg[4].
  • What Is Life?'s instance of is recorded as written work[5].
  • What Is Life?'s genre is recorded as non-fiction[6].
  • What Is Life?'s genre is recorded as popular science[7].
  • What Is Life?'s OCLC number is recorded as 24503223[8].
  • What Is Life?'s place of publication is recorded as United Kingdom[9].
  • What Is Life?'s language of work or name is recorded as English[10].
  • What Is Life?'s country of origin is recorded as United Kingdom[11].
  • What Is Life?'s publication date is recorded as +1944-00-00T00:00:00Z[12].
  • What Is Life?'s Freebase ID is recorded as /m/074k9z[13].
  • What Is Life?'s has edition or translation is recorded as What Is Life?[14].
  • What Is Life?'s main subject is recorded as science[15].
  • What Is Life?'s described at URL is recorded as https://bigthink.com/high-culture/5-books-that-changed-our-understanding-of-the-origin-of-life[16].
  • What Is Life?'s number of pages is recorded as {'amount': '+194'}[17].
  • What Is Life?'s Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/What-Is-Life[18].
  • What Is Life?'s title is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'What Is Life?'}[19].
  • What Is Life?'s subtitle is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'The Physical Aspect of the Living Cell'}[20].
  • What Is Life?'s OCLC work ID is recorded as 3754588298[21].
  • What Is Life?'s FantLab work ID is recorded as 1056068[22].
  • What Is Life?'s Goodreads work ID is recorded as 157127[23].
  • What Is Life?'s Encyclopedia of China is recorded as 456966[24].

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Designation and Status

What Is Life?'s instance of is recorded as written work[5].

Why It Matters

What Is Life? ranks in the top 5% of written_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (214 views/month).[2] What Is Life? has Wikipedia articles in 13 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[25]

Related Entities

Erwin Schrödinger science United Kingdom

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  11. [13] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
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  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . Goodreads. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [25] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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