Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

Drawdown In a previous post , I reviewed the book Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming . Sometimes ...

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 ...

Important advances in fluorescence microscopy highlight the interaction of physics and biology. This effort is led by Eric Betzig of Berke...

The Tangled Tree , by David Quammen. Recently I listened to the audiobook The Tangled Tree: A Radical History of Life , by David Quamme...