From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Wed Feb 23 22:00:00 1994 Path: biosci!bcm!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mozz.unh.edu!christa.unh.edu!eet From: eet@christa.unh.edu (Eric E Thomson) Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: Re: How do you answer: What is Biophysics? Date: 24 Feb 1994 23:28:30 GMT Organization: University of New Hampshire - Durham, NH Lines: 7 Message-ID: <2kjd6u$5h9@mozz.unh.edu> References: <2khb2o$59b@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: christa.unh.edu In article <2khb2o$59b@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> foo26860@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Frank Omana ) writes: >I was wondering if anyone out there had any humorous anecdotes >about being asked what they study and replying 'Biophysics'. >Whenever I get asked, and I say Biophysics, people suddenly >become intimidated (so needless to say, my social life is shot). Well, what exactly _is_ biophysics?? .