RF Annual Report - 1935 - The Rockefeller Foundation

THE NATURAL SCIENCES
highly valuable research activity connected with
an earlier program.
Program of Specific Concentration
Experimental Biology
Application of Physical and Chemical Techniques
to Biological Problems
University of Copenhagen
Professors Bohr, Krogh, and von Hevesy
The sum of 254,000 was appropriated to the
University of Copenhagen for special researches
in the application of the methods and techniques
of physics, chemistry, and mathematics to biological
problems. This grant is in support of the
cooperative researches of Professor Niels Bohr,
of the Institute of Theoretical Physics, Professor
August Krogh, of the Institute of Physiology,
and Professor Georg von Hevesy, of the Institute
of Physical Chemistry,
The new possibilities for the investigation of
fundamental problems in biology opened by the
recent advances in atomic physics are a major
preoccupation at the University of Copenhagen,
where experimental biological researches^ have
long gone hand in hand with theoretical discussions
of physicobiological problems. This present
project deals with biophysical problems. The
grant now made is divided into four parts. The
first part, of $15,000, provides high voltage
equipment for the production of radioactive ma-
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