Preface
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it is for the reader to decide to what extent they constitute a positive contribution to an ever-growing field of great scientific topicality. This Symposium, like its predecessors, was a truly interdisciplinary occasion, bringing together experts from such diverse fields as mathematics, computer
science, theoretical physics, hiophysics, biochemistry, human, animal and
plant physiology, pharmacology and psychology. The fundamental nature
of the subjects of our common study enables certain general conclusions to
be reached which are of philosophical significance.
The Symposium was held at the Biologische Anstalt Helgoland, Marine
Station, through the kindness of the Leading Director, Prof. O. KINNE,
who made ayailable to us in a most hospitable manner the excellent facilities
of his Institute. The local organization was in the capable hands of Prof.
and Mrs. F. KRUGER, who looked after the accommodation and welfare of
the participants supremely well. I wish, too, to thank the Mayor of Helgoland and the municipalit\ for the welcome they extended to us. Grants from
the Federal Ministry of Scientific Research, Bonn-Bad Godesberg, for
which I herewith expre5s my profound gratitude, enabled us to reimburse
some of the participants' tranl expenses. The financial contribution made
by the ()sterreichische Studiengesellschaft fur Atomenergie GmbH,
Vienna, greatly helped me in publishing the program of the Symposium;
this Society also generouslv assumed all the expenses associated with the
editorial work. ?\1 \ special thanks go to Dr. K. F. SPRINGER of SpringerVerlag, Heidelberg, for agreeing to publish the proceedings of the Symposium. Last but not least, ~fiss H. KRUMPHOLZ assisted me in editing and
retyping some of the manuscripts.
In conclusion, may I express the hope that the material presented here
will come into the hands of all who are interested in quantitative and theoretical biolog\'.
Vienna, Noyember, 1968.
A. LOCKER
IX
it is for the reader to decide to what extent they constitute a positive contribution to an ever-growing field of great scientific topicality. This Symposium, like its predecessors, was a truly interdisciplinary occasion, bringing together experts from such diverse fields as mathematics, computer
science, theoretical physics, hiophysics, biochemistry, human, animal and
plant physiology, pharmacology and psychology. The fundamental nature
of the subjects of our common study enables certain general conclusions to
be reached which are of philosophical significance.
The Symposium was held at the Biologische Anstalt Helgoland, Marine
Station, through the kindness of the Leading Director, Prof. O. KINNE,
who made ayailable to us in a most hospitable manner the excellent facilities
of his Institute. The local organization was in the capable hands of Prof.
and Mrs. F. KRUGER, who looked after the accommodation and welfare of
the participants supremely well. I wish, too, to thank the Mayor of Helgoland and the municipalit\ for the welcome they extended to us. Grants from
the Federal Ministry of Scientific Research, Bonn-Bad Godesberg, for
which I herewith expre5s my profound gratitude, enabled us to reimburse
some of the participants' tranl expenses. The financial contribution made
by the ()sterreichische Studiengesellschaft fur Atomenergie GmbH,
Vienna, greatly helped me in publishing the program of the Symposium;
this Society also generouslv assumed all the expenses associated with the
editorial work. ?\1 \ special thanks go to Dr. K. F. SPRINGER of SpringerVerlag, Heidelberg, for agreeing to publish the proceedings of the Symposium. Last but not least, ~fiss H. KRUMPHOLZ assisted me in editing and
retyping some of the manuscripts.
In conclusion, may I express the hope that the material presented here
will come into the hands of all who are interested in quantitative and theoretical biolog\'.
Vienna, Noyember, 1968.
A. LOCKER