From Strange Simplicity to Complex Familiarity: A Treatise on Matter, Information, Life and Thought - Eigen, Manfred
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This book presents a vivid argument for the almost lost idea of a unity of all natural sciences. This unity engenders the complex familiarity of the world in which we live and which can be described in strangely simple theoretical terms, leading to surprising new insights into the mysterious phenomenon of life.

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This book presents a vivid argument for the almost lost idea of a unity of all natural sciences. This unity engenders the complex familiarity of the world in which we live and which can be described in strangely simple theoretical terms, leading to surprising new insights into the mysterious phenomenon of life.
Autorenporträt
Manfred Eigen was born in Bochum, Germany in 1927, and began his rerearch career at Gottingen in 1945. In 1967 he won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for work on extremely fast chemical reactions. His work on chemistry, biochemistry and physics has been recognised throughout the world with honorary doctorates, prizes, and awards that include the Linus Pauling Medal (American Chemical Society, 1967), the Austrian Decoration for Arts and Sciences (1976), the Faraday Medal (Chemical Society, London, 1977), Max Planck Research Award (1994), the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Institute of Human Virology, Baltimore, USA (2005), and the Goethe Medal of the Goethe Society, Weimar (2007).