What is Medicine?: Basic Principles of Physics in Medicine and Beyond

Prof. A.V. Chalyi is a highly accomplished theoretical physicist and educator who has worked at the Bogomolets National Medical University in Kyiv, Ukraine, since 1983. He holds a Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences degree (1979) and a Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences degree (1966), as well as the honorary titles of "Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine" (1999) and "Honored Worker of Science and Technology of Ukraine" (2004). He has also held visiting professor positions at the University of Pierre and Marie Curie in Paris, France (1992), and the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Madison, USA (1998) as a Fulbright professor.

Prof. Chalyi is a prolific author with over 500 publications to his name, including 95 monographs, textbooks, and manuals, such as "Medical and Biological Physics," "Synergetic Principles of Education and Science," and "Nonlinear Processes in Physics: Vibrations, Waves, Self-Organization." His work has been published in numerous scientific journals and editions of well-known publishing companies such as Springer, Elsevier, Harwood Academic Press, and Nova Science Publication.

Prof. Chalyi's research interests have covered a wide range of topics in physics, including molecular physics, biophysics, medical physics, and nonlinear processes in physics and biology. He has presented lectures at many international and Ukrainian conferences and symposia and has served as a mentor to several graduate students who have gone on to become academics themselves.