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Re: How smell works.



An exposition of the physics of a laboratory (non-biological) electron tunneling
spectrometer is at:

http://wwwsoc.nii.ac.jp/jsac/analsci/pdfs/a18_0227.pdf

Bob Sciamanda (W3NLV)
Physics, Edinboro Univ of PA (em)
trebor@velocity.net
http://www.velocity.net/~trebor

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Sciamanda" <trebor@VELOCITY.NET>
To: <PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu>
Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2003 7:51 AM
Subject: How smell works.


| The original paper of Luca Turin, as published in Chemical Senses (rejected by
| Nature) is at
|
| http://www.physiol.ucl.ac.uk/research/turin_l/chemical_senses_complete.pdf
|
| This is the subject of the current best seller "The Emperor of Scent",
Chandler
| Burr, Random House. The postulated mechanism is a "biological electron
| tunnelling spectrometer"!