Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

In Problem 14 of Chapter 7 in Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I chose a strange-looking function to repre...

Abe Liboff, in his office at Oakland University Oakland University physicist Abe Liboff died recently. A notice from President Ora Hirsch P...

To understand biological physics, you must know the properties of water . In Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie an...

Fifty Outstanding Medical Physicists. In 2014, to mark its 50th anniversary, the International Organization for Medical Physics published a...

Bust of Félix Savart in the Institut de France . From Wikipedia .     I’m fascinated by scientists who make the transition from medicine to ...

Alexander Pope I mentioned before in this blog that I’m reading Will and Ariel Durant’s eleven-volume masterpiece The Story of Civilizati...

The Invisible Rainbow , by Arthur Firstenberg. Over Christmas break, I read The Invisible Rainbow: A History of Electricity and Life , by Ar...

Physics , by Halliday and Resnick. Robert Resnick , physics textbook author extraordinaire, was born 100 years ago last Wednesday (January 1...

Edith Anne Stoney Today is Edith Anne Stoney ’s birthday; she was born on January 6, 1869. In an article that appeared in the December, 2013...

When I worked at the National Institutes of Health , I studied transcranial magnetic stimulation . In Chapter 8 of Intermediate Physics for ...