- Marcelo Osvaldo Magnasco
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Marcelo Osvaldo Magnasco Born December 14, 1963
La Plata, ArgentinaResidence New York City Citizenship Argentina, U. S. A. Fields Theoretical neuroscience Institutions The Rockefeller University, International Centre for Theoretical Physics Alma mater The University of Chicago Doctoral advisor Leo P. Kadanoff Other academic advisors Oreste Piro
Mitchell J. Feigenbaum
Albert J. LibchaberDoctoral students Guillermo Cecchi, Yong Choe, Mariano Sigman, Timothy J. Gardner, Thibaud Taillefumier Known for Thermal ratchet, Auditory Physiology, dating the Odyssey Notable awards University of Chicago’s Sydney Bloomenthal Dissertation Fellow,
William Rainey Harper Dissertation-year FellowMarcelo Osvaldo Magnasco is a biophysicist, currently a professor and head of laboratory at the Rockefeller University.
He is known for his work on thermal ratchets as models of biological motors[1], auditory biophysics[2][3], neural coding [4], and other studies of biological networks such as leaf venation[5].
Also for placing the date of the solar eclipse mentioned in the Odyssey at April 16th, 1178 B.C.[6] together with Constantino Baikouzis of the National University of La Plata.[7][8]
References
- ^ Maddox, John (Sep 16, 1993), "Making Models of Muscle Contraction", Nature (News and Views) 365: 203
- ^ Ball, Phillip (Nov 2, 2001), "Canaries Change Their Tune", Nature News, doi:10.1038/news011108-2
- ^ Cho, Adrian (Jun 16, 2000), "What's shaking in the ear?", Science 288: 1954 - 1955
- ^ Complexity Digest 2000.19, Complexity Digest, Feb 19, 2001, http://comdig.unam.mx/index.php?id_issue=2000.19
- ^ Lichtman, Flora (Feb 19, 2010), Lighting Up Leaves, Science Friday, http://www.sciencefriday.com/videos/watch/10277
- ^ Baikouzis, Constantino; Magnasco, Marcelo O. (June 24, 2008), "Is an eclipse described in the Odyssey?", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences) 105: 8823, doi:10.1073/pnas.0803317105, PMC 2440358, PMID 18577587, http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/0803317105v1, retrieved 2008-06-27
- ^ Bär, Nora (July 1, 2008), "Hallan precisiones astronómicas en la poesía de Homero"], Diario La Nacion (Edicion, Diario La Nacion), http://www.lanacion.com.ar/nota.asp?nota_id=1024227, retrieved 2008-01-07
- ^ Minkel, JR (Jun 23, 2008), "Homer's Odyssey Said to Document 3,200-Year-Old Eclipse", Scientific American (News), http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=homers-odyssey-may-document-eclipse
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Categories:- Living people
- Argentine physicists
- Biophysicists
- 1963 births
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