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Harness the Hubris: Useful Things Physicists Could Do in Biology

JUL 01, 1997
We tell ourselves that biologists need physicists and that biological materials present a big opportunity for physics, but then physicists and biologists don’t train themselves to work together and learn from each other.
V. Adrian Parsegian

I once asked my father why he chose physics when he started at MIT. “Everybody said it was the hardest course, so I decided to do it.”

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V. Adrian Parsegian, National Institutes of Health in, Bethesda, Maryland.

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