Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

William Catterall , known as “the father of ion channels,” died on February 28 at the age of 77. Russ Hobbie and I cite Catterall’s article...

German biophysicist Erwin Neher turned 80 last week. Neher and Bert Sakmann received the 1991 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for t...

Gene Surdotovich and I are hard at work preparing the 6 th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology . One change compared ...

I've always been fascinated by Stirling’s approximation , ln( n !) = n ln( n ) − n , where n ! is the  factorial . Russ Hobbie and I m...

Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology provides, for the first time , a textbook about the role that physics plays in medicine. Wel...

Allan was born in Johannesburg , the youngest of three children. He spent his teenage years in Cape Town , and was interested in debating, t...

Numerical Methods That Work , by Forman Acton. The American computer scientist Forman Acton died ten years ago this Sunday. In Intermediate...

Robert Adair. Photo credit: Michael Marsland / Yale University . I try to write obituaries of scientists who appear in Intermediate Physics ...

“Havana Syndrome”: A Post Mortem, by Bartholomew and Baloh. Remember the Havana Syndrome ? You don’t hear much about it anymore. Recently I ...

I just learned that my friend Craig Henriquez passed away last summer. Craig earned his PhD at Duke University in their Department of Bio...