Marc Henry

Marc Henry is a Professor of Chemistry, Materials Science, and Quantum Physics at the University of Strasbourg. He heads a research team run jointly by the University of Strasbourg and CNRS. He has published over one hundred peer-reviewed papers on the applications of quantum theory to chemistry.

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Medicine The Virus [long_description] This piece is about THE virus in the context of the other viruses. From broad—what is a coronavirus? To particular—how similar is the new coronavirus to bat and pangolin viruses? With the publication of the two genomes of pangolin-CoV and bat-RaTG13-CoV, it has become clear that switching pangolin and bat amino acid sequences would result in a sequence almost identical to SARS-CoV-2.
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Chemistry The Fourth State of Water [long_description] What is water that is neither ice, nor liquid, nor vapor? And when does such a phenomenon occur? Henry explains the unfolding discovery of water’s elusive fourth state, which, when more fully understood, could bring a revolution for biology and medicine.
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Chemistry Water and Its Mysteries [long_description] A recent paper by Kyung Hwan Kim et al., “Maxima in the Thermodynamic Response and Correlation Functions of Deeply Supercooled Water,” describes the confounding behavior of water at supercooled temperatures. There are very few things, Marc Henry observes, that modern science does not understand. One of them is consciousness; the other is water.
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Chemistry Super-Saturated Chemistry [long_description] Is chemistry soluble in physics? Any reaction involves the movement of atoms or groups of atoms. Yet quantum mechanics cannot explain the periodic table, or other empirically-determined facts. Marc Henry argues that physics, for all its ambitions, will never be able to explain chemistry.
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Chemistry The Hydrogen Bond [long_description] The claim that chemistry has been explained in terms of quantum theory is received wisdom. Yet quantum physics is unable to explain the strong association of water molecules in liquid or ice. Marc Henry suggests the hydrogen bond is an emergent property of matter resulting from a non-linear coupling between quantified energy levels of water molecules and a quantified internal electromagnetic field.