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N. ARLEY
At this point my colleague Dr. T. BRUSTAD from my Oslo institute
should have taken over and described our experimental results, but it has
taken longer time than we had thought to get the money for the necessary
irradiation machine so that you will have to wait some time for the continuation of our report.
Let me conclude by repeating my concluding remarks in my paper at
the Wisconsin symposium in 1963 [1] : I feel that I am no longer alone in the
firm conviction that all the basic secrets of life are hidden on the molecular level
in the borderland between atomic physics and biology. Modern quantum theory has
already united the fields of physics, chemistry, and astronomy to one grand
entirety of knowledge and it seems to me not unlikely that in a not too
distant future the fields of biology, including both psychology and medicine, will also be embraced by this unification process thus giving us a
unified picture of the universe stretching from the infinitely small world of
the atoms, over the intermediary world of everyday physics, chemistry,
and biology, to the infinitely large expanding world of the galaxies and
their clusters.
Acknowledgements. The content of this paper was intended to be presented as
part of lectures at the University of Copenhagen according to the royal jus docendi
of the author's doctor degree and the author's royal appointment as associate professor. However, the authorities of the university of Copenhagen and the Danish
minister of education have prevented by force that they were delivered in this
way. - The author wishes to thank Prof. R. SCHLEGEL, Michigan State University,
and Dr. T. BRUSTAD, Department of Biophysics, Norsk Hydro's Institute for
Cancer Research, most heartily for many stimulating discussions during a number
of years.
References
1. ARLEY, N.: In:]. GVRLAND (Ed.), Stochastic Models in Medicine and Biology,
p. 3, Univ. of Wisconsin. Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Press 1964.
2. - Naturwissenschaften 53, 276 (1966).
3. - Radiation Research 29, 1 (1966).
4. - Naturwissenschaften 54, 366 (1967).
5. -, and K. R. BVCH: Introduction to the Theory of Probability and Statistics.
Science Edition. New York: John Wiley and Sons 1966.
6. -, and R. EKER: Advances in Biological and Medical Physics 8, 375 (1962).
7. -, u. H. SKOV: Atomkraft. Eine Einfiihrung in die Probleme des Atomzeitalters. Heidelberg : Springer-Verlag 1960.
8. BRVSTAD, T.: Radiation Research 27, 456 (1966).
9. EINSTEIN, A., and L. INFELD: The Evolution of Physics. New York: Simon
and Schuster 1938.
10. SEELIG, c.: Albert Einstein. Leben und Werk eines Genies unserer Zeit.
Ziirich: Europa Verlag 1960.
11. Report of the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic
Radiation. New York: U.N. 1962.
N. ARLEY
At this point my colleague Dr. T. BRUSTAD from my Oslo institute
should have taken over and described our experimental results, but it has
taken longer time than we had thought to get the money for the necessary
irradiation machine so that you will have to wait some time for the continuation of our report.
Let me conclude by repeating my concluding remarks in my paper at
the Wisconsin symposium in 1963 [1] : I feel that I am no longer alone in the
firm conviction that all the basic secrets of life are hidden on the molecular level
in the borderland between atomic physics and biology. Modern quantum theory has
already united the fields of physics, chemistry, and astronomy to one grand
entirety of knowledge and it seems to me not unlikely that in a not too
distant future the fields of biology, including both psychology and medicine, will also be embraced by this unification process thus giving us a
unified picture of the universe stretching from the infinitely small world of
the atoms, over the intermediary world of everyday physics, chemistry,
and biology, to the infinitely large expanding world of the galaxies and
their clusters.
Acknowledgements. The content of this paper was intended to be presented as
part of lectures at the University of Copenhagen according to the royal jus docendi
of the author's doctor degree and the author's royal appointment as associate professor. However, the authorities of the university of Copenhagen and the Danish
minister of education have prevented by force that they were delivered in this
way. - The author wishes to thank Prof. R. SCHLEGEL, Michigan State University,
and Dr. T. BRUSTAD, Department of Biophysics, Norsk Hydro's Institute for
Cancer Research, most heartily for many stimulating discussions during a number
of years.
References
1. ARLEY, N.: In:]. GVRLAND (Ed.), Stochastic Models in Medicine and Biology,
p. 3, Univ. of Wisconsin. Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Press 1964.
2. - Naturwissenschaften 53, 276 (1966).
3. - Radiation Research 29, 1 (1966).
4. - Naturwissenschaften 54, 366 (1967).
5. -, and K. R. BVCH: Introduction to the Theory of Probability and Statistics.
Science Edition. New York: John Wiley and Sons 1966.
6. -, and R. EKER: Advances in Biological and Medical Physics 8, 375 (1962).
7. -, u. H. SKOV: Atomkraft. Eine Einfiihrung in die Probleme des Atomzeitalters. Heidelberg : Springer-Verlag 1960.
8. BRVSTAD, T.: Radiation Research 27, 456 (1966).
9. EINSTEIN, A., and L. INFELD: The Evolution of Physics. New York: Simon
and Schuster 1938.
10. SEELIG, c.: Albert Einstein. Leben und Werk eines Genies unserer Zeit.
Ziirich: Europa Verlag 1960.
11. Report of the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic
Radiation. New York: U.N. 1962.