What Is Life? published in 1944. At that time DNA was not yet accepted as the carrier of hereditary information, which only was the case after the Hershey–Chase experiment of 1952. One of the most successful branches of physics at this time was statistical physics, and quantum mechanics, a theory which is also very statistical in its nature. Schrödinger himself is one of the founding fathers of quantum mechanics. Max Delbrück's thinking about the physical basis of life was an important influence on Schrödinger. However, long before the publication of "What is Life?", geneticist and 1946 Nobel-prize winner H. J. Muller had in
Australasian Physical & Engineering Sciences in Medicine Australasian Physical & Engineering Sciences in Medicine Australasian Physical & Engineering Sciences in Medicine is a quarterly peer-reviewed medical journal covering research on medical physics and biomedical engineering. It is the official journal of the Australasian College of Physical Scientists and Engineers in Medicine. The journal was first published in 1977 as "Australasian Physical Sciences in Medicine", obtaining its current name in 1980. It has been published by Springer Science+Business Media since 2010. The journal replaced the earlier "Australasian Bulletin of Medical Physics" and "Australasian Newsletter of Medical Physics", which was established in December 1959. The Kenneth Clarke Journal Prize