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Life and Physics

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The idea for a symposium on “The New Frontiers at the Crossing Between Physical and Life Sciences” comes at a time when we are facing an entirely new situation in so far as these topics are concerned. I will focus my discussion here on the problem of the origins of life as it may be thought about using some newer conceptual tools of physics.

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  1. Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

    Ilya Prigogine

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  1. School of Medicine, University of Genova, Genova, Italia

    Claudio Nicolini (Chair of Biophysics) (Chair of Biophysics)

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Prigogine, I. (1986). Life and Physics. In: Nicolini, C. (eds) Bioscience at the Physical Science Frontier. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4834-7_13

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