Preface

• 来源期刊: 中国科学:化学（英文版）
• 年，卷（期）: 2014,（12）
• 页码范围: 1603-1604
• 页数: 2页
• 语种: 中文
• DOI: 10.1007/s11426-014-5261-1

摘要

Biophysical chemistry is a relatively new branch of physical chemistry.Wikipedia-the free encyclopedia describes it with the following sentences (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biophysical_chemistry,cited on November 2,2014):"Biophysical chemistry is a physical science that uses the concepts of physics and physical chemistry for the study of biological systems The most common feature of the research in this subject is to seek explanation of the various phenomena in biological systems in terms of either the molecules that make up the system or the supra-molecular structure of these systems." During the early development,two most prominent events were the establishment of the "Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry" in G(o)ttingen in 1971 and the publication of the first issue of the journal of Biophysical Chemistry in 1973.In order to address the significance of biophysical chemistry,the Division I of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) changed its name from the "Physical Chemistry Division,IUPAC" to the "Physical and Biophysical Chemistry Division,IUPAC" in 2000.The rapid development and great achievement of biophysical chemistry were well reflected in the most recent Nobel Prizes in Chemistry:to Martin Karplus,Michael Levitt and Afieh Warshel "for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems" in 2013 and to Eric Betzig,Stefan W.Hell and William E.Moerner "for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy" in 2014.