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
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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
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