Foundational / Historical

Schrödinger, E. (1944). What Is Life? The Physical Aspect of the Living Cell. Cambridge University Press.

Fröhlich, H. (1968). Long-range coherence and energy storage in biological systems. International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, 2(5), 641–649.

Penrose, R. (1989). The Emperor’s New Mind. Oxford University Press.

Hameroff, S., & Penrose, R. (2014). Consciousness in the universe: A review of the Orch OR theory. Physics of Life Reviews, 11(1), 39–78.

Quantum Biology Case Studies
5. Engel, G. S. et al. (2007). Evidence for wavelike energy transfer through quantum coherence in photosynthetic systems. Nature, 446, 782–786.
6. Lambert, N., Chen, Y. N., Cheng, Y. C., Li, C. M., Chen, G. Y., & Nori, F. (2013). Quantum biology. Nature Physics, 9, 10–18.
7. Ritz, T., Thalau, P., Phillips, J. B., Wiltschko, R., & Wiltschko, W. (2004). Resonance effects indicate a radical-pair mechanism for avian magnetic compass. Nature, 429, 177–180.
8. Ball, P. (2011). Physics of life: The dawn of quantum biology. Nature, 474, 272–274.

DNA / Enzyme / Olfaction
9. Löwdin, P. O. (1963). Proton tunneling in DNA and its biological implications. Reviews of Modern Physics, 35(3), 724.
10. Brookes, J. C. (2017). Quantum effects in biology: golden rule in enzymes, olfaction, photosynthesis and magnetodetection. Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 473(2201), 20160822.