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http://biophysics.asu.edu/workshop/report.html

Last May, at the invitation of NSF, a group of physicists met in Tempe, Arizona, to discuss problems and opportunities in biological physics. The report that emerged from the meeting, The Role of Theory in Biological Physics and Materials, serves as a helpful survey of the world of biological physics.

http://home.earthlink.net/~papagena/CareerBreaks.html

Getting a job in academic research is hard enough. Imagine trying to do so after you’ve taken a few years’ break. Elizabeth Freeland, a Chicago-based physicist, has faced that challenge. Her website, Career Breaks, offers advice on how to cope with planned and unplanned breaks.

http://www.rp-photonics.com/encyclopedia.html

When not running his research group at ETH Zürich, Rüdiger Paschotta provides consulting services to the photonics industry. As part of that enterprise, Paschotta has put together the Encyclopedia of Laser Physics and Technology. The online encyclopedia, which continues to grow, contains more than 200 entries.

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