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Harold Morowitz
Clarence J. Robinson Professor of Biology and Natural Philosophy
Biophysicist Harold Morowitz became a Robinson
Professor after a long career of teaching and research at Yale University as Professor of
Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and serving for five years as Master of Pierson
College. The author of several books, Morowitz has written extensively on the
thermodynamics of living systems, as well as on popular topics in science. Included in
those publications are Mayonnaise and the Origins of Life, Cosmic Joy and Local Pain,
The Thermodynamics of Pizza, Entropy and the Magic Flute, and The Kindly Dr.
Guillotin. In his current research, Morowitz is investigating the interface of biology
and information sciences and continues his exploration of the origins of life. Other books
are The Origin of Cellular Life: Metabolism Recapitulates Biogenesis and The
Facts of Life (co-authored with James Trefil). He is Staff Scientist
and former Director of the Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study and former Editor-in-Chief
of the journal Complexity. His book The Emergence of Everything: How
the World Became Complex was published in 2002 by Oxford University Press. Dr. Morowitz is principal investigator on the multi-institutional grant "From Geochemistry to the Origin of Life," which is centered at the Santa Fe Institute and includes George Mason University and four other research centers. Dr. Morowitz was featured in an article in the Mason Gazette: http://gazette.gmu.edu/articles/8808 .
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