At the dawn of modern science, that is, in the time of Newton, science was natural philosophy and there were no walls between biology and physics. Robert Hooke published the first detailed drawings of organisms viewed under a microscope, coined the word "cell," speculated about the mechanisms of memory, made some cogent interpretations of fossils, elucidated the fundamental nature of springs, helped Boyle discover the basic laws of gases, and got within an RCH of scooping Newton on the inverse square law of gravitation. Gradually, specialization forced the physical and natural sciences apart, although Nature was not aware of it. Still, the history of biology has been punctuated by contributions from physicists, and not just through the application of discoveries like the x-ray or NMR, that is, nuclear magnetic resonance.
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