Article ID: CBB088100681

When Physics Meets Biology: A Less Known Feynman (2018)

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We discuss a less known aspect of Feynman’s multifaceted scientific work, centered about his interest in molecular biology, which came out around 1959 and lasted for several years. After a quick historical reconstruction about the birth of molecular biology, we focus on Feynman’s work on genetics with Robert S. Edgar in the laboratory of Max Delbruck, which was later quoted by Francis Crick and others in relevant papers, as well as in Feynman’s lectures given at the Hughes Aircraft Company on biology, organic chemistry and microbiology, whose notes taken by the attendee John Neer are available. An intriguing perspective comes out about one of the most interesting scientists of the XX century.

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Authors & Contributors
Deichmann, Ute
Sloan, Phillip R.
Argüelles, Juan Carlos
Creager, Angela N. H.
Delbrück, Max
Domondon, Andrew T.
Journals
British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Asclepio: Archivo Iberoamericano de Historia de la Medicina
Historical Records of Australian Science
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Publishers
Atlas Books
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
Greenwood Press
University of Chicago Press
World Scientific
Yale University Press
Concepts
Molecular biology
DNA; RNA
Genetics
Biology
Microbiology
Physics
People
Crick, Francis
Delbrück, Max
Watson, James Dewey
Bohr, Niels Henrik David
Franklin, Rosalind
Jordan, Pascual
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, early
20th century, late
21st century
Places
Australia
Germany
England
Institutions
Human Genome Project
Universität zu Köln. Institut für Genetik
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