The ten-year old Committee on Biophysics at the University of Chicago has been raised to full status as the Department of Biophysics in the University's Division of the Biological Sciences. The formal teaching of biophysics began at the University of Chicago shortly after World War II, with a faculty drawn from various departments in the biological and physical sciences. In 1954, a Committee on Biophysics was created with three full-time faculty members and one part-time, who subsequently developed an academic program leading to the doctoral degree. The Department of Biophysics now has eight full-time faculty members. These include Raymond R. Zirkle, chairman, William Bloom, John R. Platt, Humberto Fernández-Morán, Robert B. Uretz, E. Peter Geiduschek, Edwin W. Taylor, and Robert Haselkorn. Parttime members include H. Stanley Bennett and Herbert Landahl.