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  • noun A biologist or physicist whose speciality is biophysics

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  • noun a physicist who applies the methods of physics to biology

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Examples

  • By the time of my Abitur - the examination providing access to university - it was clear to me that I should become a 'biophysicist'.

    Erwin Neher - Autobiography 1992

  • So we set about assembling a team of cross-disciplinary professionals including Dr. Patricia Muehsam, on the faculty of Mount Sinai Medical School; Dr. Peter Roche de Coppens, professor of sociology, anthropology, and psychotherapy at East Stroudsburg University in Pennsylvania and the Sorbonne in Paris; Dr. Beverly Rubik, a biophysicist who had conducted scientific research in mind-body, subtle energies, and complementary medicine; Dr. J.

    Manifesting Michelangelo Joseph Pierce Farrell 2011

  • A biophysicist by training, Dr. Rubik helped conduct scientific research and education in the fields of mind-body, subtle energies, and complementary medicine.

    Manifesting Michelangelo Joseph Pierce Farrell 2011

  • Musgrave is a surgeon, mathematician, chemist, biophysicist, physiologist, computer scientist, artist and author of important scientific papers in the areas of aerospace medicine, physiology and clinical surgery.

    Ex-Astronaut Story Musgrave Blasts NASA, Washington, Over Space Shuttle Program Failures 2011

  • So we set about assembling a team of cross-disciplinary professionals including Dr. Patricia Muehsam, on the faculty of Mount Sinai Medical School; Dr. Peter Roche de Coppens, professor of sociology, anthropology, and psychotherapy at East Stroudsburg University in Pennsylvania and the Sorbonne in Paris; Dr. Beverly Rubik, a biophysicist who had conducted scientific research in mind-body, subtle energies, and complementary medicine; Dr. J.

    Manifesting Michelangelo Joseph Pierce Farrell 2011

  • "Energy and water mix hand in hand," says environmental biophysicist Susan Riha of Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y. With hydraulic fracturing, she says, potential risks range from the chance of chemicals such as benzene leaking into local drinking water to landscape damage to questions about who benefits from a new energy boom.

    Natural gas supply, jobs and technique debate booming 2010

  • Dr. Ernest McCulloch, who with biophysicist James E. Till was the first to isolate and identify a stem cell, opening the door immediately to bone marrow transplants and eventually to what researchers expect will be a host of treatments for a broad spectrum of ailments including spinal cord injuries and Alzheimer's disease, died Jan. 20 in Toronto.

    Ernest McCulloch dies: Scientist who first identified stem cells was 84 Thomas Maugh II 2011

  • A biophysicist by training, Dr. Rubik helped conduct scientific research and education in the fields of mind-body, subtle energies, and complementary medicine.

    Manifesting Michelangelo Joseph Pierce Farrell 2011

  • Dr. Ernest McCulloch, who with biophysicist James E. Till was the first to isolate and identify a stem cell, opening the door immediately to bone marrow transplants and eventually to what researchers expect will be a host of treatments for a broad spectrum of ailments including spinal cord injuries and Alzheimer's disease, died Jan. 20 in Toronto.

    Ernest McCulloch dies: Scientist who first identified stem cells was 84 Thomas Maugh II 2011

  • The 39-year-old is a medical biophysicist by training who worked for Monsanto Co.'s Searle drug unit before entering finance.

    Pharmaceuticals 2011

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