Cancer biophysics
JUL 01, 1949
Having got over a first impulse to treat problems in biology as if they were problems in physics, the physicist has found many ways of applying the discipline of his thinking and the delicate capabilities of his instruments to the study of cancer.
DOI: 10.1063/1.3066585
Cancer brings about the cruelest irony known to man for in cancer the living conscious body can see itself growing wrong. In order to arrive at an understanding of this dread misdirected growth research workers in all the fundamental sciences have been called together to work in our cancer research institutions.
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Joseph G. Hoffman, School of Medicine, University of Buffalo.
© 1949 American Institute of Physics
