Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

J. Patrick Reilly died on October 28 in Silver Spring , Maryland, at the age of 87. He was a leader in the field of bioelectricity, and esp...

Medical physicist Willi Kalender died on October 20 at the age of 75. Kalender was an inventor of spiral computed tomography . Russ Hobbie ...

Edward “Joe” Redish , a University of Maryland physics professor, died August 24 of cancer. Joe has been mentioned many times in this blog...

William Catterall , known as “the father of ion channels,” died on February 28 at the age of 77. Russ Hobbie and I cite Catterall’s article...

Robert Adair. Photo credit: Michael Marsland / Yale University . I try to write obituaries of scientists who appear in Intermediate Physics ...

I just learned that my friend Craig Henriquez passed away last summer. Craig earned his PhD at Duke University in their Department of Bio...

Paul Maccabee (1944–2023). Photo used with permission from the Downstate Health Sciences University website . My friend and collaborator Pau...

John Moulder , from Khurana et al. (2008) Med. Phys. , 35:5203, with permission from Wiley . John Moulder, a leading expert in radiation bio...

Abe Liboff, in his office at Oakland University Oakland University physicist Abe Liboff died recently. A notice from President Ora Hirsch P...

This week I belatedly learned that Mike Joy died. This was sad news indeed. Joy was a Canadian electrical engineer who measured current den...

Random Walks in Biology , by Howard Berg . Look up at the picture of books at the top of this blog, showing my ideal bookshelf . You see Int...