{"title":"How physicists became biologists","authors":"Istvan Hargittai","doi":"10.1007/s11224-024-02400-7","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>There have been three periods in physicists moving to biology. First, a few distinguished physicists recognized early the need and possibilities for applying their approach to biology. Then, Erwin Schrödinger’s <i>What is Life?</i> induced a good number of scientists to seek the next frontier of science in biology. The trend has continued in recent time; thus, we are living the third period. For a few scientists, their path to biology is looked at in some detail. The peculiar case of outstanding physicists salvaging biology in the Soviet Union is mentioned. So is the world-famous Cavendish Laboratory initiating what has become a leading venue of biological research. Broad-based education fosters scientists’ ability to change their main line of enquiry.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":780,"journal":{"name":"Structural Chemistry","volume":"36 1","pages":"1 - 12"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1000,"publicationDate":"2024-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Structural Chemistry","FirstCategoryId":"92","ListUrlMain":"https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11224-024-02400-7","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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There have been three periods in physicists moving to biology. First, a few distinguished physicists recognized early the need and possibilities for applying their approach to biology. Then, Erwin Schrödinger’s What is Life? induced a good number of scientists to seek the next frontier of science in biology. The trend has continued in recent time; thus, we are living the third period. For a few scientists, their path to biology is looked at in some detail. The peculiar case of outstanding physicists salvaging biology in the Soviet Union is mentioned. So is the world-famous Cavendish Laboratory initiating what has become a leading venue of biological research. Broad-based education fosters scientists’ ability to change their main line of enquiry.
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Structural Chemistry is an international forum for the publication of peer-reviewed original research papers that cover the condensed and gaseous states of matter and involve numerous techniques for the determination of structure and energetics, their results, and the conclusions derived from these studies. The journal overcomes the unnatural separation in the current literature among the areas of structure determination, energetics, and applications, as well as builds a bridge to other chemical disciplines. Ist comprehensive coverage encompasses broad discussion of results, observation of relationships among various properties, and the description and application of structure and energy information in all domains of chemistry.
We welcome the broadest range of accounts of research in structural chemistry involving the discussion of methodologies and structures,experimental, theoretical, and computational, and their combinations. We encourage discussions of structural information collected for their chemicaland biological significance.
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