A theoretical physicist's journey into biology: From quarks and strings to cells and whales

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Abstract

Biology will almost certainly be the predominant science of the twenty-first century but, for it to become successfully so, it will need to embrace some of the quantitative, analytic, predictive culture that has made physics so successful. This includes the search for underlying principles, systemic thinking at all scales, the development of coarse-grained models, and closer ongoing collaboration between theorists and experimentalists. This article presents a personal, slightly provocative, perspective of a theoretical physicist working in close collaboration with biologists at the interface between the physical and biological sciences.

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West, G. B. (2014, October 1). A theoretical physicist’s journey into biology: From quarks and strings to cells and whales. Physical Biology. Institute of Physics Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1088/1478-3975/11/5/053013

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