Living matter and physical laws
DOI: 10.1063/1.3066810
Numerous attempts have been made in the recent past to apply the laws and the methodology of physics and chemistry to the life processes. Although these occasionally have been marked by a certain amount of success, biology as a science retains much of the empirical quality that characterized physics and chemistry in their early days.
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John R. Reitz, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, New Mexico.
Conrad Longmire, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, New Mexico.