Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 May 1997
1. INTRODUCTION 107
2. ORGANIZATION 108
3. THE MAIN GOALS 108
4. SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES 109
5. CONNECTION AND COOPERATION WITH OTHER ORGANIZATIONS 109
6. PUBLICATIONS 110
7. CLOSING REMARKS 110
8. HISTORICAL TABLES 111
9. APPENDIX: IUPAB STATUTES (as modified in Amsterdam, 1996) 115
The IUPAB was founded on 2 August 1961 in Stockholm as the International Organization of Pure and Applied Biophysics. The main goal of the Organization was to promote and organize international cooperation in biophysics and molecular biology and to encourage its development and practical application all over the world. Some detailed information on the foundation of the Union was published by A. K. Solomon (first Secretary General) in Quarterly Review of Biophysics.Another summary of the activity of IUPAB was prepared by R. D. Keynes(second Secretary General) in 1976.