Quantum Biology, with Jim Al-Khalili

by Samuele Lilliu | 12 May 2020

Prof. Jim-Al-Khalili the history of quantum biology and discusses quantum effects in magnetoreception, olfaction, enzyme catalysis, and photosynthesis.

Prof. Jim-Al-Khalili explains the emerging field of quantum biology and discusses how this new discipline has developed from its inception in the 1920s until fruition in the late 1990s with the discovery of quantum effects in magnetoreception, olfaction, enzyme catalysis, and photosynthesis.