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the question of what is negentropy. Erwin Schr0dinger first introduced the concept of negentropy, in his 1944 popular-science book 'What is life?' [Schrodinger 1944] and it was used in the discussion of living systems. Schrodinger explained his use of this phrase: if I had been catering for them [physicist

rns at every step. The story of the development of quan- tum mechanics is full of them. But I want to cut to the chase here, and so I will skip over Niels Bohr, whose ideas laid out the first fundamental atomic rules of the quantum world as well as the basis for much of modern chemis- try. We'll also skip E

ple for whom quantum mechanics seems to offer hope of a world where any dream, no matter how outlandish, is realizable. Other familiar names, Bohr, Schrodinger, Dirac, and later Feynman and Dyson, each made great leaps into the unknown. But they weren't alone. Physics is a collaborative discipline. Too oft

York City, where he accepted a position at Columbia. When Fermi learned the news about nuclear fission in 1939 in New York, following a lecture by Niels Bohr at Princeton, Fermi amended his earlier Nobel acceptance speech to clarify his earlier error and in short order re- 2P_Glealer-StoryEverTold_Atindd

These electrons have, on average, velocities that are a fair fraction of the speed of light, and to describe them, we must use Special Relativity. Schrodinger's equation worked well to describe the energy levels of elec- trons in the outer parts of simple atoms such as hydrogen, where it pro- vided a quantu