title: Bridging the gap between physics and biology.
abstract: The work is devoted to the historical development of physics and biology. Various aspects of their interactions are shown: antagonism, mutual penetration and a lot of bridges, built or being built between them. The gradual "evolution of the world picture" from going away of the "pre-scientific" animated Universe and the appearance of mechanicism and vitalism to the development of systems and field approaches is traced. The last part of the paper is concerned with some present-day works at the joint between physics and biology.
authors.affiliation: Department of Embryology, Faculty of Biology, Moscow State University, Moscow, 119899, Russia. ivolodyaev@mail.ru
authors.forename: Ilya
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Volodyaev
mesh_terms: D001695:Biology / Q000266:history*; D001703:Biophysics / Q000266:history; D005060:Europe; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D010825:Physics / Q000266:history*