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Physics meets cancer: The disruptor

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Paul Davies likes to ask big questions. But how did the freethinking cosmologist suddenly find himself probing the physics of cancer?

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M. Mitchell Waldrop is a features editor for Nature.

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Waldrop, M. Physics meets cancer: The disruptor. Nature 474, 20–22 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/474020a

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