Surface Inactivation of Bacterial Viruses and of Proteins
The extraordinary paper of Mark H. Adams: Surface Inactivation of Bacterial Viruses and of Proteins appeared in a mainstream Journal of Physiology, in 1948. It was neglected and has been ever since. In retrospect this was and is a tragedy for science of the very first order. Adams was recognise...
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The extraordinary paper of Mark H. Adams: Surface Inactivation of Bacterial Viruses and of Proteins appeared in a mainstream Journal of Physiology, in 1948. It was neglected and has been ever since. In retrospect this was and is a tragedy for science of the very first order.
Adams was recognised in his time as a brilliant bacteriologist who, sadly, died young (1912-1956). His peers completed a partially finished book on his work in 1959.
It was forgotten in the rush to join the DNA biological revolution. In that revolution the physical sciences, the physical chemistry of solutions, colloid and surface science have played almost no serious conceptual role at all. The biological/medical and the physico-chemical sciences have diverged almost completely, to a point where their languages are mutually incomprehensible.2 Of course, characterisation and diagnostics of disease by myriad new techniques has been essential to progress in medicine and biology. But the gap remains. We are missing something.
Adams paper circumscribes that something.
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| spelling | doaj.art-e5398a7e6dfd496586829437a8efef902023-02-09T03:34:14ZengFirenze University PressSubstantia2532-39972023-02-0110.36253/Substantia-2040Surface Inactivation of Bacterial Viruses and of ProteinsMark H. Adams0Barry W. Ninham1Department of Bacteriology, New York University College of Medicine, New YorkDepartment of Materials Physics, Research School of Physics, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia The extraordinary paper of Mark H. Adams: Surface Inactivation of Bacterial Viruses and of Proteins appeared in a mainstream Journal of Physiology, in 1948. It was neglected and has been ever since. In retrospect this was and is a tragedy for science of the very first order. Adams was recognised in his time as a brilliant bacteriologist who, sadly, died young (1912-1956). His peers completed a partially finished book on his work in 1959. It was forgotten in the rush to join the DNA biological revolution. In that revolution the physical sciences, the physical chemistry of solutions, colloid and surface science have played almost no serious conceptual role at all. The biological/medical and the physico-chemical sciences have diverged almost completely, to a point where their languages are mutually incomprehensible.2 Of course, characterisation and diagnostics of disease by myriad new techniques has been essential to progress in medicine and biology. But the gap remains. We are missing something. Adams paper circumscribes that something. https://riviste.fupress.net/index.php/subs/article/view/2040Dissolved gasbubble-bubble interactionsnanobubblessurface layers |
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