Biophysics (also biological physics) is an interdisciplinary science that applies the theories and methods of physics to questions of biology..
Some would argue that physics began in Western Europe during the Renaissance with the work of Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, and Newton.
Others would trace the beginnings back to the early Greeks and credit the Ionian, Thales, with being the world's first physicist..
An important contribution of biophysicists to modern biology is the perspective that biological processes can be understood from the interactions between and within the constituent molecules.
Therefore, the behaviors of biological systems can be predicted from physical principles.Mar 2, 2011.
In 1982, when Karl Pearson introduced the term “Bio-Physics” in The Grammar of Science (2) to describe the science that links the physical and biological sciences, he also noted “This branch of science does not appear to have advanced very far at present, but it not improbably has an important future.”.
History of Biophysics
Biophysics is a relatively young branch of science; it arose as a definite subfield in the early to mid-20th Century.
However, the foundations for the study of biophysics were laid down much earlier, in the 19th Century, by a group of physiologists in Berlin.Jul 30, 2017.
