Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

In the October 2012 issue of the American Journal of Physics , Dawn Meredith and Jessica Bolker published an article about “ Rounding Off...

Eleanor Adair , who studied the health risks of microwave radiation, died on April 20 in Hamden , Connecticut at the age of 86. A 2001 int...

Fifty years ago, Edward Lorenz (1917–2008) published an analysis of Rayleigh-Benard convection that began the study of a field of mathema...

Today, my wife Shirley and I will attend the graduation of our daughter Kathy from Vanderbilt University . She is getting her undergraduate ...

Just two doors down the hall from my office in Hannah Hall of Science at Oakland University is the office of my friend Gene Surdutovich . G...

Sixty years ago yesterday the journal Nature published a letter by James Watson and Francis Crick titled “ Molecular Structure of Nucleic...

Chapter 18 of the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology is devoted to magnetic resonance imaging . Russ Hobbie and ...

The largest source of natural background radiation is radon gas. In Chapter 17 of the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and...

From Clocks to Chaos , by Glass and Mackey. Leon Glass was honored recently by the Society for Mathematical Biology . Their website st...

I should have posted this article last year, to mark the 80th anniversary of the annus mirabilis of nuclear physics . Unfortunately, I didn...