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Quantum Physics Meets Biology: a Case Study
Citation
Jarvis, PD, Quantum Physics Meets Biology: a Case Study, Preserving the Humboldt tradition of scholarship in Australia, Australian Association of von Humboldt Fellows, Trevor R Finlayson (ed), Melbourne, pp. 75-80. ISBN 9780958814928 (2012) [Other Book Chapter]
Abstract
Is there a role for fundamental quantum physics in biology or evolution? Quantum physics was invented about a century ago, but in recent years has been undergoing an epistemological exodus, with its ideas and methods expanding from physics into information and communication and associated technologies, but also, re-addressing fundamental questions of biology. This paper will give some background to explain these assertions, and will take up a particular case study showing how quantum mechanisms may be intimately involved in some key biological processes relating to molecular mechanisms of olfaction.
Item Details
Item Type: | Other Book Chapter |
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Research Division: | Physical Sciences |
Research Group: | Quantum physics |
Research Field: | Quantum physics not elsewhere classified |
Objective Division: | Expanding Knowledge |
Objective Group: | Expanding knowledge |
Objective Field: | Expanding knowledge in the biological sciences |
UTAS Author: | Jarvis, PD (Dr Peter Jarvis) |
ID Code: | 80490 |
Year Published: | 2012 |
Deposited By: | Mathematics and Physics |
Deposited On: | 2012-11-01 |
Last Modified: | 2012-11-01 |
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