Marcelo Osvaldo Magnasco
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Marcelo Osvaldo Magnasco
| Marcelo Osvaldo Magnasco | |
|---|---|
| Born | December 14, 1963 La Plata, Argentina |
| Residence | 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. Libchaber |
| Doctoral 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 Fellow |
Marcelo 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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