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A Life of Biophysics
1Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, USA;
Abstract:
Biophysics is a way of approaching biological problems through numbers, physical laws, models, and quantitative logic. In a long scientific career, I have seen the formation and fruition of the ion channel concept through biophysical study. Marvelous discoveries were made as our instruments evolved from vacuum tubes to transistors; computers evolved from the size of an entire building to a few chips inside our instruments; and genome sequencing, gene expression, and atom-level structural biology became accessible to all laboratories. Science is rewarding and exhilarating.
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