The discovery of the depletion force
- 8 June 2021
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by AIP Publishing in The Journal of Chemical Physics
- Vol. 154 (22), 220401
- https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0052306
Abstract
This Editorial reports how the depletion force theory was originally developed by Sho Asakura and Fumio Oosawa and how their one-page paper was “rediscovered” about 20 years after the paper was published. The first part of this Editorial is mostly based on the lecture by Oosawa and his autobiographies, and the second part is written by one of two scientists who found the paper. The aim of this Editorial is to record the background of the discovery of the depletion force. We believe that this Editorial presents an interesting story showing how science develops. The story reminds us of the importance of basic education and continuous interests in unknown phenomena and interactions between people of different disciplines, although they are sometimes considered as separate elements of research.This publication has 39 references indexed in Scilit:
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