Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

Random Walks in Biology , by Howard Berg . In last week’s blog post , I told you about the recent death of Howard Berg , author of Random Wa...

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...

Bully for Brontosaurus , by Stephen Jay Gould . I have written previously in this blog about my admiration for evolutionary biologist Steph...

Cells, Gels and the Engines of Life , by Gerald Pollack. I recently read Gerald Pollack ’s book Cells, Gels and the Engines of Life: A New, ...

Adrianus Kalmijn , a biophysicist known for his studies of electroreception in sharks , died December 7, 2021, at the age of 88. In Chapt...

Tonight is Christmas Eve.  At this time of the year, I think of the great English physicist Michael Faraday giving the Royal Institution Ch...

Russell Hobbie I am heartbroken to have to tell you that Russ Hobbie , my coauthor and friend, passed away this week, after a long battle wi...

Klee, M. (2014) Amer . J . Phys . 82:451-459. In Chapter 9 of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I discuss how...

Physical Models of Living Systems, 2nd Edition, by Philip Nelson. In a 2015 blog post , I discussed Philip Nelson ’s then-new book Physical ...

The December, 2021 issue of the American Journal of Physics contains Resource Letter BP-1: Biological Physics (Volume 89, Pages 1071–1078)...