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On the day after the 1959 Cambridge Congress, during which the
International Union of Pure and Applied Biophysics was founded, a
biophysics section was formed within the Society of Physical
Chemistry (Societe de Chimie Physique). Since then, three of the
Society's annual meetings (the 11th, 17th, and 23rd) were devoted
exclusively to the physico-chemical study of biological systems.
The first of these was held in June 1961 at a hotel in Col de Voza,
at the foot of an alpine glacier above Chamonix. The second, in May
1967, took place in the more learned setting of the venerable rooms
of the National Museum of Natural History in Paris. The third - the
one dealt with in the present volume - was recently held at
Orleans-La Source in the newly built lecture theatres of the young
University, which is near the great Institutes of the National
Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), on the Sologne plateau.
These three stages are milestones of an evolution which
characterises (at least schematically) the explosive evolution of
biological physico-chemistry. The first colloquium, with the title
'Deoxyribonucleic Acid: Structure, Synthesis and Functions',
actually marks the first contact of the physical chemist with one
of the then most prestigious biological macromolecules, the
structure of which had just been discovered, and in this way
celebrated one of the first and most striking successes of
molecular biology.
On the day after the 1959 Cambridge Congress, during which the
International Union of Pure and Applied Biophysics was founded, a
biophysics section was formed within the Society of Physical
Chemistry (Societe de Chimie Physique). Since then, three of the
Society's annual meetings (the 11th, 17th, and 23rd) were devoted
exclusively to the physico-chemical study of biological systems.
The first of these was held in June 1961 at a hotel in Col de Voza,
at the foot of an alpine glacier above Chamonix. The second, in May
1967, took place in the more learned setting of the venerable rooms
of the National Museum of Natural History in Paris. The third - the
one dealt with in the present volume - was recently held at
Orleans-La Source in the newly built lecture theatres of the young
University, which is near the great Institutes of the National
Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), on the Sologne plateau.
These three stages are milestones of an evolution which
characterises (at least schematically) the explosive evolution of
biological physico-chemistry. The first colloquium, with the title
'Deoxyribonucleic Acid: Structure, Synthesis and Functions',
actually marks the first contact of the physical chemist with one
of the then most prestigious biological macromolecules, the
structure of which had just been discovered, and in this way
celebrated one of the first and most striking successes of
molecular biology.
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