Robert Rosen
Robert Rosen · Science & Medicine
Theoretical biologist known for work on the nature and organization of living systems
1934, Brownsville, Brooklyn, New York, United States — 1998, Rochester, New York, United States
United States · Canada
Robert Rosen is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Theoretical biologist known for work on the nature and organization of living systems
Rosen was an American theoretical biologist who founded relational biology, applying category theory to model living systems as anticipatory wholes irreducible to their parts and closed to efficient causation. A student of Nicolas Rashevsky, he taught at SUNY Buffalo and Dalhousie University and set out his ideas in Life Itself. He was born into a Jewish family in Brooklyn.
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Theoretical biologist known for work on the nature and organization of living systems
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
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