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investigations into the effects of ions led him to the 

 successful employment of physicochemical methods 

 in research on artificial parthenogenesis, later con- 

 ducted experiments on diffusion, in which he inter- 

 preted the action of the ion in terms of atomic 

 physics. 



Wolfgang Pauli believes: 



"There can be little doubt that out of the 

 study of the physicochemical properties of the 

 colloids there will spring a new bud of physical 

 physiology in which the application of the 

 modern teachings of electricity will play a 

 primary role. The physiology which recognizes 

 in the neighboring sciences of physics and chem- 

 istry that profound revolutionizing influence of 

 the newer electrical investigations, which do not 

 stop before even the most sacred and funda- 

 mental conceptions of this subject, must con- 

 sider it as a next most worthy task to guarantee 

 itself its share in the new conquests of scientific 

 knowledge."^ 



The terms of physical chemistry then admittedly 

 are utterly inadequate to express the ultimate rela- 

 tions which obtain among the phenomena of life, or 

 the organism. It comes to this: Life, any and all 

 life-phenomena and the organism as a whole, cannot 



• Physical Chemistry in the Service of Medicine, 155. 



