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Lars Onsager’s classical work on electrolytes is intimately linked to the problem of diffusion and interaction of charged particles. On the occasion of his seventieth birthday I want to take up his ideas and emphasize their relevance to phenomena in molecular biology.
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Eigen, M. (1974). Diffusion Control in Biochemical Reactions. In: Mintz, S.L., Widmayer, S.M. (eds) Quantum Statistical Mechanics in the Natural Sciences. Studies in the Natural Sciences, vol 4. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-4532-9_3
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