title: A perspective: Robert B Laughlin.
abstract: Despite their cultural differences, physics and biology are destined to interact with each other more in the future. The reason is that modern physics is fundamentally about codification of emergent law, and life is the greatest of all emergent phenomena.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, Stanford University, California 94305-4060, USA.
authors.forename: Robert B
authors.initials: RB
authors.lastname: Laughlin
mesh_terms: D001703:Biophysics / Q000379:methods / Q000458:organization & administration