Bringing physics to bear on the phenomenon of life: the divergent positions of Bohr, Delbrück, and Schrödinger.
Bringing physics to bear on the phenomenon of life: the divergent positions of Bohr, Delbrück, and Schrödinger.
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将物理学应用于生命现象：玻尔、德尔布吕克和薛定谔的不同立场。
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10.1016/j.shpsc.2006.06.014
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2006
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A. Domondon
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A. Domondon
关于物理学界对分子生物学诞生的贡献的公认观点倾向于将物理学界呈现为在物理学如何应用于生物学方面有着基本共识。然而，我认为，对参与分子生物学诞生的三位主要物理学家玻尔、德尔布吕克和薛定谔的观点进行仔细研究表明，即使在物理学界，对于如何利用物理学来解决生物学问题也存在根本性的分歧。特别是，我专注于如何这三个数字在他们的互补性的相关性，化学方法的潜力，以及经典物理学的相对重要性的评估急剧不同。此外，我评估和发展罗尔-汉森的尝试概念化这段历史的库恩和拉卡托斯先进的科学变革模型。虽然这两个模型是完全成功地解释这三个物理学家之间的分歧的意见，我认为，在他们的观点的程度和质量的差异有助于阐明和扩展一些主题，在库恩的模型是不透明的。
The received view on the contributions of the physics community to the birth of molecular biology tends to present the physics community as sharing a basic level consensus on how physics should be brought to bear on biology. I argue, however, that a close examination of the views of three leading physicists involved in the birth of molecular biology, Bohr, Delbrück, and Schrödinger, suggests that there existed fundamental disagreements on how physics should be employed to solve problems in biology even within the physics community. In particular, I focus on how these three figures differed sharply in their assessment of the relevance of complementarity, the potential of chemical methods, and the relative importance of classical physics. In addition, I assess and develop Roll-Hansen’s attempt to conceptualize this history in terms of models of scientific change advanced by Kuhn and Lakatos. Though neither model is fully successful in explaining the divergence of views among these three physicists, I argue that the extent and quality of difference in their views help elucidate and extend some themes that are left opaque in Kuhn’s model.