Friday, February 27, 2026

Igor Tamm, Biological Physicist

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“How Physicists Became Biologists” by Istvan Hargittai. One goal of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology is to illustrate the clos...
Friday, February 20, 2026

The American Institute of Physics Publishing Award for Exceptional Contributions to Biophysics and Bioengineering

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This weekend at the Biophysical Society Meeting in San Francisco, John Wikswo will receive The American Institute of Physics Publishing ...
Friday, February 13, 2026

Sneak Peak at the New Chapter About Surface Tension in the 6th Edition of IPMB

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The first page of Chapter 2 about surface tension in the sixth edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology . For those interest...
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Friday, February 6, 2026

Salk's 1954 Polio Clincal Trial

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Viruses are rarely mentioned in Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology . We do discuss them in the very first section of the book, w...
Friday, January 30, 2026

If Anything Is Proven, Climate Science Is Proven

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Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , being a textbook, talks a lot about scientific theories, models, and facts, but not much abo...
Friday, January 23, 2026

Walter Gilbert, Biological Physicist

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Walter Gilbert,  provided to Wikimedia  by the Science History  Institute as part of a cooperation project . I like to collect examples of...
Friday, January 16, 2026

Magnetism and its Effects on the Living System

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In this blog, I’ve discussed several people who promote pseudoscience related to health effects of electric and magnetic fields , including...
Friday, January 9, 2026

Planar Microcoil Arrays for In Vitro Cellular-Level Micromagnetic Activation of Neurons

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Russ Hobbie and I discuss magnetic stimulation in Chapter 8 of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology . The technique uses a time-v...
Friday, January 2, 2026

The 6th Edition of IPMB Has Been Submitted!

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On December 26, Gene Surdutovich and I submitted our draft of the 6th Edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology to Springer ,...
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Friday, December 26, 2025

Twinkle, Twinkle, T2*

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In Chapter 18 of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I discuss the relaxation time constants T 1 and T 2 use...