Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

“How Physicists Became Biologists” by Istvan Hargittai. One goal of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology is to illustrate the clos...

Walter Gilbert,  provided to Wikimedia  by the Science History  Institute as part of a cooperation project . I like to collect examples of...

“ Radiation and the Single Cell: The Physicist's Contribution  to Radiobiology,” by Eric Hall. I like to highlight examples of scientist...

Nerve, Muscle, and Synapse , by Bernard Katz. I’ve talked about Bernard Katz before in this blog , when discussing his book Nerve, Muscle, ...

Louis Pasteur (1822–1895) One recurring theme in this blog is how scientists make the transition from working in the physical sciences to st...

J. Robert Oppenheimer. Did you watch Oppenheimer in the theater this summer? I did. The movie told how J. Robert Oppenheimer led the Manha...

This Sunday is the 120th anniversary of the birth of American physicist Philip Morse (1903–1985). Russ Hobbie and I mention Morse in Chapt...

Bust of Félix Savart in the Institut de France . From Wikipedia .     I’m fascinated by scientists who make the transition from medicine to ...

The Last Man Who Knew Everything , by Andrew Robinson. Almost ten years ago in this blog , I speculated about who was the greatest biologica...

The Story of Civilization , by Will and Ariel Durant . About a year ago I began reading the eleven-volume series The Story of Civilization ...