Biophysics

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XXIV

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2. The Structure of Cells (Prokaryotes, Eukaryotes)

   • Eberhard Schnepf

   Pages 1-19

3. The Chemical Structure of Biologically Important Macromolecules

   • Harald Tschesche

   Pages 20-41

4. Structure Determination of Biomolecules by Physical Methods

   • Friedrich Dörr

   Pages 42-206

5. Intra- and Intermolecular Interactions

   • G. Ludwig Hofacker

   Pages 207-264

6. Mechanisms of Energy Transfer

   • Friedrich Dörr

   Pages 265-288

7. Radiation Biophysics

   • Ernst-Georg Niemann

   Pages 289-300

8. Isotope Methods Applied in Biology

   • Helmut Simon

   Pages 301-315

9. Energetic and Statistical Relations

   • Friedrich Dörr, Peter Schuster, Gernot Renger

   Pages 316-371

10. Enzymes as Biological Catalysts

    • Robert Huber, William S. Bennett Jr., Georg E. Schulz

    Pages 372-394

11. The Biological Function of Nucleic Acids

    • Hermann Heumann, Wolfram Zillig

    Pages 395-407

12. Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Self-assembly

    • Jürgen Engel

    Pages 408-412

13. Membranes

    • Knute A. Fisher, Walther Stoeckenius, Erich Sackmann, Berthold Neumcke, Manfred H. Weisenseel, Eberhard Fromter et al.

    Pages 413-514

14. Photobiophysics

    • Gernot Renger, Karl M. Hartmann, Wolfgang Haupt, W. D. McElroy

    Pages 515-565

15. Biomechanics

    • Hans Georg Mannherz, Kenneth Charles Holmes, Rudolof Dietrich Bauer, Rudi Busse, Erik Wetterer, Hubert Ziegler et al.

    Pages 566-640

16. Neurobiophysics

    • Josef Dudel, Ulrich Thurm, Hubert Markl, Eberhard Zwicker, Geoffrey Manley, Gerhard Neuweiler et al.

    Pages 641-787

17. Cybernetic

    • Horst Mittelstaedt, Hans Marko, Werner Reichardt, Anders Johnsson

    Pages 788-828

18. Evolution

    • Peter Schuster, Hans Kuhn, Jürg Waser, Klaus Dose, Karl Sigmund

    Pages 829-924

19. Back Matter

    Pages 925-944

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What is biophysics? As with all subjects which straddle traditional boundaries between fields, it eludes a precise definition. Furthermore, it is impossible to do biophysics without having a certain foundation of knowledge in biology, physics, physical chemistry, chemistry and biochemistry. One approach to a biophysics textbook would be to refer the student to the literature of these neighboring fields, and to leave the selection of the appropriate supplementary material up to the student. The editors of this volume are of the opinion that it is more useful and less time-consuming to present a selection of the supplementary knowledge, in concentrated form, together with the subject matter specific to biophysics. The reader will thus find in this book introductions to such subjects as the structure and function of the cell, the chemical structure of biogenic macromolecules, and even theoretical chemistry. What, indeed, is biophysics? Must we consider it to include physiology, electromedicine, radiation medicine, etc. ? The field has evolved continuously in recent years. Molecular understanding oflife processes has come more and more to the fore. Just as the field of molecular physics has developed to describe structures and processes in the realm of non-living systems, there has been a corresponding development of molecular biophysics.

• RNA
• amino acid
• biochemistry
• biology
• biophysics
• cell
• chemistry
• enzymes
• gene expression
• living systems
• membrane transport
• metabolism
• molecule
• photosynthesis
• physiology

• Max-Planck-Institut für Biochemie, Martinsried, Germany

  Walter Hoppe

• Institut für Biophysik, Universität Gießen Strahlenzentrum, Gießen, Germany

  Wolfgang Lohmann

• Fakultät für Biologie, Universität Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany

  Hubert Markl

• Institut für Botanik und Mikrobiologie, Technischen Universität München, München 2, Germany

  Hubert Ziegler

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