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Even Alan Turing have done some biology-related work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chemical_Basis_of_Morphogenesis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chemic

• Ultimatt 8y ago
  Yeah which is waaaay more significant both in the field of chemistry and biology. The work Turing was doing at that time was seriously advanced thinking, and really on the right track for how things like transcriptional regulation works in embryogenesis. If he had lived longer its really depressing to imagine what he might have contributed in biology, and how much faster we would have got to where we are in molecular biology. Unlike this write up on Feynman, Turing genuinely provided a hypothesis with some insight and rigour that turned out to be important. It was first found to be a real thing in the world in chemistry with the discovery of the Belousov–Zhabotinsky reaction, which then directly tied the maths to an actual reactive process. The way biology works is a bit more digital and discrete, but the general idea and concept is similar. Turing couldn't have anticipated that his ideas on computation were probably even closer to biology than his differential rate equation models. If he had lived to see the evidence of the tie ins between his works, I think he would have dropped some seriously epic stuff we cant even imagine right now for dealing mathematically with molecular biology at various scales.