"Biology," a physicist recently remarked to me, "is too important to be left to the biologists." In a similar vein, I'm sure there are many scientists who think that "history is too important to be left to the historians". It was a notion that nagged away at me while reading Schr?dinger in Oxford by David Clary, which examines the time spent by the Austrian theorist Erwin Schr?dinger at the University of Oxford in the 1930s.
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