Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

Yesterday, August 30, was the 100-year anniversary of the birth of physicist Edward Purcell (1912–1997). Purcell appears several times in t...

From Clocks to Chaos: The Rhythms of Life , by Leon Glass and Michael Mackey. In Chapter 10 of the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics...

I have always found electromagnetic units confusing. There are just so many of them, and it is difficult to keep them all straight. Russ Hob...

I’m obsessed with citations. I realize citation analysis has its limits, but it provides an objective way to measure the impact of a publica...

The 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology begins in Chapter 1 with a discussion of biomechanics . Of course, biomech...

The CIBA Collection of Medical Illustrations , by Frank Netter. When I started graduate school at Vanderbilt University , I had a stro...

1992 was a good year for me. My wife and I, who had been married for seven years, had two young daughters, and we had just bought a house i...

Big news this week in the field of magnetoreception . A paper titled “ Magnetic Characterization of Isolated Candidate Vertebrate Magnetorec...

Last week in this blog , I discussed the medical physicist Rosalyn Yalow , who was the second female to win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or...

The radioimmunoassay is a sensitive technique for measuring tiny amounts of biologically important molecules, such as the hormone insulin ...