An interdisciplinary branch of biology concerned with the application of physical principles and methods to the study of the structures and functions of living organisms. Most of the research traditions in biophysics were put into place through the work of PhD students in physics during the first half of the 20th century, a prime example being Max Delbruck (1906-1981) who shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1969 for discoveries concerning the replication mechanism and the genetic structure of viruses. Today, biophysicists can be found working in biochemistry, molecular biology, and neuroscience.
See Bioinformatics, Biology, Biochemistry, Discipline, Interdiscipline, Molecular biophysics