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In October 1973, Professor H. Fröhlich, FRS, retiring from the Chair of Theoretical Physics at Liverpool University, joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at Salford University, whose Charter did not require him to become “Emeritus” at such an early age. It is this which began the writer’s active participation in the Fröhlich co-operative phenomenon, and it is to celebrate the 80th birthday of the still young Fröhlich that this contribution to his Festschrift is respectfully dedicated. When we started talking about dielectrics and the physics of biological systems, he warned me that it might only take 10 weeks to solve the problems, but equally it could take 10 years. It has now been running for more than 10 years, very interesting and enjoyable years too, and the more we continue to find out about the physics of nature the more wonderful nature appears.
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Smith, C.W. (1987). Generalities: Living Systems and Dielectrics. In: Barrett, T.W., Pohl, H.A. (eds) Energy Transfer Dynamics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-71867-0_29
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