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Living matter and physical laws

MAR 01, 1950
The biologist is perhaps as skeptical of the help the physicist can offer the life sciences as the physicist is confident that he has something to offer. But physical concepts are being applied to the study of life both with humility and with prospects for progress.
John R. Reitz
Conrad Longmire

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.

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Volume 3, Number 3

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