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Rev. Mod. Phys. 71, S419 - S430 (1999)

Biological Physics

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Hans Frauenfelder
Center for Nonlinear Studies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545

Peter G. Wolynes
Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801

Robert H. Austin
Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544

Physics and biology have interacted for at least two centuries. In the twentieth century, this interaction has become very strong and the overlap between the two fields has expanded enormously. In the present contribution, the authors sketch where physics has influenced biology and where investigations on biological systems have led to new physical insights.


©1999 The American Physical Society

URL: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/RevModPhys.71.S419
DOI: 10.1103/RevModPhys.71.S419
PACS: 87.10.+e, 87.10.+e

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