Lecture
- Duration: 3 mins
- Publication date: 15 Feb 2013
- Part of series The Kelvin Lecture Series, IET Prestige Lecture Series
Abstract
Watch live on IET.tv from Savoy Place: http://scpro.streamuk.com/uk/player/Default.aspx?wid=16471&ptid=1059&t=0 Jim AL Khalili delivers this years prestige Kelvin lecture: Is Life Quantum Mechanical? IET: Savoy Place, London 18th April 2013, 19:00 GMT This lecture introduces the speculative yet exciting new field of Quantum Biology". Jim Al-Khalili is one of a growing number of physicists struggling to understand how fragile quantum mechanical phenomena previously thought to be confined to highly rarefied laboratory systems at temperatures close to absolute zero, manage to survive in the wet, warm biological world.