Biological Physics

Market: Students and researchers in biological physics. "Any medical

List of contents

1. Infrastructure. Physics and Biology (A. French).
Biological Membranes (B. Chance et al.). Biomembrane Phase Transition (J.F. Nagle and H.L. Scott).

2. Cells. Bacteria Swim by Rotating Their Flagellar Filaments (H.C. Berg and R.A. Anderson).
Physics of Chemoreception (H.C. Berg and E.M. Purcell).
Life at Low Reynolds Numbers (Purcell).

3. Energetics. Electron Transfer between Biological Molecules by Thermally Activated Tunnelling (J. Hopfield). Intermolecular Energy Migration and Fluorescence (T. Forster).
Exciton Migration and Trapping in Photosynthesis (R.M. Pearlstein).

4. Information Generation Transfer. The Electrophysics of a Nerve Fiber (A.C. Scott).
Neural Networks and Physical Systems with Emergent Collective Computational Abilities (J.J. Hopfield).
The Biophysics of Visual Photoreception (A. Lewis and L.V. Del Piore).

5. Experimental Technique. Characterization of the Human Auditory Cortex by the Neuromagnetic Method (G.L. Romani et al.).
Image Formation by Induced Local Interactions: Examples Employing Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (P.C. Lauterbur).
Observation of Tissue Metabolites using 31P Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (D.I. Hoult et al.).

6. Photosynthesis.

Product details

• Assisted by: E Greenbaum (Editor), E. Greenbaum (Editor), Elias Greenbaum (Editor), R. S. Knox (Editor), R.S. Knox (Editor), Robert S. Knox (Editor), E. V. Mielczarek (Editor), E.V. Mielczarek (Editor), Eugenie V. Mielczarek (Editor), S Knox (Editor), R S Knox (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.1993
• EAN: 9780883188552
• ISBN: 978-0-88318-855-2
• No. of pages: 424
• Weight: 1336 g
• Illustrations: XI, 424 p.
• Series: Key Papers in Applied Physics; Key Papers in Physics; Key Papers in Applied Physics
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Biochemistry, biophysics