title: Out of a creative jumble of ideas in the middle of last Century: Wiener, interdisciplinarity, and all that.
abstract: Is Biophysics an interdisciplinary science? In order to answer this rhetorical question, it can be useful to look back at history of disciplines, as well as that of the scientific institutions helping their development. In this contribution some aspects of the unusual hodgepodge of concepts involving Biophysics, the legacy of Cybernetics, cognitive science and the central figure of Norbert Wiener are presented and discussed.
authors.affiliation: Ufficio Biblioscienze, Biblioteche di Roma, Italy.
authors.forename: Leone
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Montagnini
authors.affiliation: DMI Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy; Istituto Nazionale di Ricerche Demopolis, Italy.
authors.forename: Marco Elio
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Tabacchi
authors.affiliation: DMI Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy; European Center for Soft Computing, Spain.
authors.forename: Settimo
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Termini
mesh_terms: D001703:Biophysics / Q000266:history*; D003491:Cybernetics / Q000266:history*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans
keywords: Biophysics; Cybernetics; Interdisciplinarity