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Biophysics

Physical laws in living systems and their application in medicine.

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Békésy, Georg von

Georg von Békésy (3.06.1899-13.06.1972) was a Hungarian physicist and biophysicist.

Bose, Jagadish Chandra

Jagadish Chandra Bose (30.11.1858-23.11.1937) was an Indian physicist and physiologist and one of the founders of biophysics.

Helmholtz, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand

Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand Helmholtz (31.08.1821-8.09.1894) was a German natural scientist and a member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences (1871).

D’Arsonval, Jacques-Arsène

Jacques-Arsène D’Arsonval (8.06.1851-31.12.1940) was a French physicist and physiologist, a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1894) and its president in 1917.

Lazarev, Petr Petrovich

Petr Petrovich Lazarev (13.04.1878-24.04.1942) was a Soviet physicist and biophysicist and an academician (1917).

Friedrich, Walter

Walter Friedrich (25.12.1883-16.10.1968) was a German physicist and biophysicist, a member of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR (1949) and its president in 1951-56.

Adaptation

Adaptation of the eye , (from the Late Latin adaptatio — fitting, adjustment), the adjustment of the sensitivity of the eye to changing conditions of illumination.

Binocular vision

Binocular vision , (from the Latin bini — pair, two, and oculus — eye), vision with two eyes.

Biological crystals

Biological crystals are crystals built from biological macromolecules — proteins, nucleic acids or virus particles.