Sidney Altman

Eight months later, having left Columbia, I was studying physics in a summer program and working in Colorado when I decided to enroll as a graduate student in biophysics.

Canadian Scientist

Biophysics bridges biology and physics, so understanding both helps.

Cross-Disciplinary

Biophysics is often associated with research and experiments in labs.

Research Oriented

Terms from both physics and biology are commonly used in biophysics.

Technical Vocabulary

 But for the last three years, I’ve had what I consider to be the best job in the entire universe, which is to put my hobby -- which is, you know, fragrance and all the magnificent things -- plus a little bit of biophysics, a small amount of self-taught chemistry

Luca Turin: The science...

 biophysics and he picked DNA because DNA had been shown at the Rockefeller Institute to possibly be the genetic molecules on the chromosomes most people believed was proteins but woke of the surf you know I thought DNA was the best bet and he showed this