Muscles and Molecules

Muscles and Molecules, by Gerald Pollack topples the widely accepted understanding on how muscles contract, replacing it with a simpler construct that better fits the evidence.

Scientist, speaker, and author, Gerald H. Pollack (Jerry) is recognized worldwide for identifying water’s fourth phase — H3O2. He is known for his open-minded approach — with ideas and with people.

His work with water earned him the inaugural Emoto Peace Prize, as well as the Prigogine Medal for Thermodynamics, and the NIH Director's Transformative R01 Award.

Pollack is the founding Editor-in-chief of the research journal WATER, founding Executive Director of the Institute for Venture Science, and organizer of the annual International Conference on the Physics, Chemistry, and Biology of Water. Further, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Ural State University in Ekaterinburg, Russia, and was more recently named Honorary Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and Foreign Member of the Srpska Academy. Pollack is a Founding Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering and a Fellow of both the American Heart Association and the Biomedical Engineering Society. The University of Washington has bestowed on him their highest faculty distinction, the Faculty Lecturer Award.

• "Excellence Award" from the Society for Technical CommunicationWinner 1990