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  • Life and Mind, Past and Future:Schrödinger's Vision Fifty Years Later
  • Avshalom C. Elitzur
Avshalom C. Elitzur
Department of Chemical Physics, The Weizmann Institute of Science, 76100 Rehovot, Israel

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