Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

Last week heart surgeon and pacemaker pioneer Andrian Kantrowitz died in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Among his many roles, Kantrowitz was an Adjun...

Each year in early December the Howard Hughes Medical Institute presents their Holiday Lectures on Science . Not sure you can make it to Ch...

Looking for a way to keep up with the scientific literature in biological physics? Make a habit of perusing the Virtual Journal of Biologic...

Physics for Future Presidents: The Science Behind the Headlines , by Richard Muller. This blog has remained free of politics throughou...

For the last few years that I worked at the National Institutes of Health , Harold Varmus was the NIH director. Varmus was a Nobel Prize wi...

When Russ Hobbie and I started to prepare the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , we discussed if we should add ...

Nonlinear dynamics is discussed in several chapters in the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , and particularly i...

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information , by Edward Tufte. Early in my graduate school career (back when I used to have time to...

Physics with Illustrative Examples from Medicine and Biology , by Benedek and Villars. When I teach about hydrostatics from the 4th ed...

The Institute of Physics has an excellent website called “ Inside Story: Physics in Medicine ,” which contains some fascinating animations ...