Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology
Friday, March 31, 2023
Should Exclamation Points Be Used in Scientific Writing? Yes!
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Exclamation points are rare in scientific writing, but I like them. Occasionally Russ Hobbie and I use them in Intermediate Physics for Me...
Friday, March 24, 2023
Three New Reviews
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Over the last couple years, I’ve been writing lots of review articles. In the last few weeks three have been published. All of them are open...
Friday, March 17, 2023
Daylight Saving Time
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Why Should We Abolish Daylight Saving Time? J. Biol. Rhythms , 34:227–230, 2019. Last Sunday, we all switched from standard time to day...
Friday, March 10, 2023
Physics Girl has Long Covid
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I’m a fan of Dianna Cowern , better known as Physics Girl , who makes Youtube videos about physics that would be helpful for readers of Int...
Friday, March 3, 2023
Cobalt Blues: The Story of Leonard Grimmett, the Man Behind the First Cobalt-60 Unit in the United States
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Cobalt Blues , by Peter Almond. I recently read Cobalt Blues: The Story of Leonard Grimmett, the Man Behind the First Cobalt-60 Unit in the ...
Friday, February 24, 2023
A Simple Mathematical Function Representing the Intracellular Action Potential
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In Problem 14 of Chapter 7 in Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I chose a strange-looking function to repre...
Friday, February 17, 2023
Abraham Liboff (1927–2023)
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Abe Liboff, in his office at Oakland University Oakland University physicist Abe Liboff died recently. A notice from President Ora Hirsch P...
Friday, February 10, 2023
Water, Cavendish, and Lavoisier
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To understand biological physics, you must know the properties of water . In Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie an...
50 Prominent Medical Physicists
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Fifty Outstanding Medical Physicists. In 2014, to mark its 50th anniversary, the International Organization for Medical Physics published a...
Friday, February 3, 2023
Felix Savart, Biological Physicist
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Bust of FĂ©lix Savart in the Institut de France . From Wikipedia . I’m fascinated by scientists who make the transition from medicine to ...
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