Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

Who was the greatest biological physicist ever? That’s a difficult question, but one candidate is the German scientist Hermann von Helmholtz...

Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain , by Oliver Sacks. Those who know me well are aware that I spend considerable time walking ...

Plain Words , by Sir Ernest Gowers. When I arrived at graduate school, the main goal given to me by my advisor John Wikswo was to writ...

The Art of Electronics , by Horowitz and Hill. A biological physicist needs many skills, and an important one for experimentalists is e...

In Chapter 1 of the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I included a homework problem about movi...

I hope, dear readers, that you all have been regularly browsing through http://medicalphysicsweb.org , the website from the Institute of Phy...

An editorial titled “ We Need Theoretical Physics Approaches to Study Living Systems ,” which was published recently in the journal Physical...

Ten years ago yesterday, the American biologist Martha Chase passed away. Chase is famous for her participation in a fundamental genetics e...

Me standing next to the entrance of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Last week my wife, my mother-in-law, and I made a brief trip to Long...

Bioelectromagnetism , by Malmivuo and Plonsey. A good textbook about bioelectricity and biomagnetism is Bioelectromagnetism: Principles...