Talk:List of biophysicists

List notability criteria
I added a box with the statement that this article meets list notability criteria. I hope that will soon be true, but it isn't yet. Citations are needed that provide support for the notability of the list itself (see, for example, List of geophysicists). Until such citations are provided, there is the danger that someone might nominate this article for Articles for deletion. RockMagnetist (talk) 19:37, 22 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Agree. This needs to be improved. Many people are missing. A few may be disputed. I am not sure what exactly notability criteria could be used to include specific people here. http://planetmath.org/ is hardly a reliable source. My very best wishes (talk) 19:44, 23 February 2012 (UTC)


 * An example of how challenging it is to find a good source: I searched the Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography for "Biophysicists" and got 10 hits - and 2 hits for "Biophysicist". Go figure. RockMagnetist (talk) 20:05, 23 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Just for reference, here are the scientists in that list: Detlev Wulf Bronk, Petr Petrovich Lazarev, Georg von Békésy, Arsène D’Arsonval, Jagadis Bose, Ernst Pascual Jordan, Bernard Katz, Maurice Wilkins, Yuri Ovchinnikov, and Francis O. Schmitt. Note the red links. RockMagnetist (talk) 20:11, 23 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Strange source ... This is an extremely incomplete and arbitrary compiled list (what criteria did they use?). No doubts that Bernard Katz and Maurice Wilkins would qualify for any list of notable biophysicists. I do not know much about others, except Ovchinnikov. He is known as the chief promoter of Soviet program of biological weapons. He is also known for intentionally providing false information to his western scientific competitors (Har Gobind Khorana  as far as I remember) to slow down their research, as he liked to tell himself to Russian public. My very best wishes (talk) 02:38, 24 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Perhaps we need some formal criteria. For example, this list would be something to consider. My very best wishes (talk) 03:24, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
 * So, we could just go ahead and include all people from this list if we have wikipedia articles about them, unless anyone objects... My very best wishes (talk) 19:42, 24 February 2012 (UTC)

Prof. Emilio Del Giudice

 * In beginning of February dead Prof. Emilio Del Giudice (Italian, 1940—2014). He was one of the best scientists on the topic water. Prof. Del Guidice is co-author of Prof. Luc Montagnier. I need support from other editors for the structuring of page for him. --Analiticus (talk) 12:40, 15 February 2014 (UTC)

More on Notability
It would indeed be good to have better coverage from countries other than the US, such as your suggestion of del Giudice. It's possible to add a name to the list before their page is set up - OK in either order, if notability is clear.

My suggestion is that someone be considered a biophysicist if they study biology using physics-based experimental or computational methods, and they are notable if they developed a major methodology or got an especially notable research result (i.e. one highly cited in the field), received a specifically biophysics major award, were elected to the appropriate section of an Academy of Sciences in their country (such as the list cited above), wrote a biophysics textbook, or perhaps edited a journal, chaired a dept, or active in a major society to do with biophysics. - Dcrjsr (talk) 19:49, 15 February 2014 (UTC)


 * Sounds like a nice summary of Notability (academics). When adding someone to the list who doesn't have an article yet, it is a good idea to add a citation that establishes notability. RockMagnetist (talk) 20:02, 15 February 2014 (UTC)