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biophysics

study of biological systems using methods from the physical sciences
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Summary

biophysics is a branch of biology[1]. biophysics draws 3,119 Wikipedia views per month (branch of biology category, ranking #16 of 72).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: branch of physics[3], academic discipline[4]
  • Subclass of: biology[5], physics[6], medical and biological physics[7]
  • Commons category: Biophysics[8]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Biophysics[9]
  • Described by source: Biophysical Society[10], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 5[11]
  • Stack Exchange tag: https://physics.stackexchange.com/tags/biology[12], https://biology.stackexchange.com/tags/biophysics[13]
  • Has characteristic: biophysics award[14]
  • NCI Thesaurus ID: C16349[15]
  • Practiced by: biophysicist[16]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject Zika Corpus[17], Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[18]
  • Wikimedia outline: outline of biophysics[19]
  • Maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Biology[20], WikiProject Physics[21], WikiProject Molecular Biology[22], WikiProject Biophysics[23]
  • Social media followers: 10,063[24], 13,640[25]
  • P10203: 1304[26]

Why It Matters

biophysics has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] biophysics is known by 34 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

Related Entities

Alan Lloyd Hodgkin Andrew Baumgartner Arieh Warshel Bernard Katz biology Ephraim Katzir Erwin Neher Francis Crick Frank Noé Georg von Békésy Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia Instituto de Fisica de Liquidos y Sistemas Biologicos Ivar Giæver Jacques Dubochet Jagadish Chandra Bose Jan Zeman Jiankui He J. Marc Overhage John Desmond Bernal Lydia E. Kavraki Manfred Eigen Max Delbrück Michael Levitt Petr Daněček physics Rosalyn Sussman Yalow Thomas Gold Tomáš Náhlík Vasilios Alexiades Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 4w ago · Ksn.kenny · 2026-09-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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  3. 16w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-06-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → biophysics
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