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[Brookhaven, NY: The American Physical Society], 1983. First edition. HAWKING'S NO-BOUNDARY PROPOSAL: HOW THE UNIVERSE COULD HAVE ARISEN FROM NOTHING. First edition, very rare offprint, and Hawking's own file copy, of this famous paper describing the 'no-boundary proposal' for the origin of the universe. "Stephen sought to understand the whole universe in scientific terms. As he said famously, 'My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe' ... From 1982 onwards, Stephen concentrated his efforts on the deeper puzzle of the boundary conditions required to bring about inflation and the probability of them coming about ... The singularity theorems proved by Stephen, Penrose and others showed conclusively that the classical Einstein equation implied that the universe began in a hot Big Bang. But the singularity theorems also showed that the beginning could not be described by a classical space-time geometry obeying the Einstein equation with three space directions and one time…
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Wave function of the Universe. Offprint from: Physical Review D, Vol. 28, No. 12, 15 December 1983
by HARTLE, James Burkett & HAWKING, Stephen William
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What Is Life? The Physical Aspect of the Living Cell. Based on Lectures Delivered Under the Auspices of the Institute at Trinity College, Dublin, in February 1943
by SCHRÖDINGER, Erwin
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Cambridge: at the University Press, 1944. First edition. INTRODUCED THE CONCEPT OF A GENETIC CODE. First edition, first impression, of Schrödinger's famous and influential series of lectures on the physical basis of life. Even Schrödinger himself did not suspect that "the book would introduce a new concept to biology, that of a genetic code, and also be considered the most significant cause of an intellectual migration, from physics to biology, that would fully establish the emerging discipline of molecular biology" (Sarkar, p. 631)." "Even during wartime in England Schrödinger's lectures gained enough publicity to be reported on in the April 5, 1943, issue of Time magazine. The lectures were published as a small book in 1944 by Cambridge University Press. In this form they profoundly influenced James D. Watson and others, such as Francis Crick, whose background was in physics. Watson wrote: "From the moment I read Schrödinger's What is Life I became polarized toward finding out the secret of…
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