Marcelo Osvaldo Magnasco

Marcelo Osvaldo Magnasco
Born December 14, 1963 (1963-12-14) (age 54)
La Plata, Argentina
Residence New York City
Citizenship Argentina, U. S. A.
Alma mater The University of Chicago
Known for Thermal ratchet, Auditory Physiology, dating the Odyssey
Awards

University of Chicago’s Sydney Bloomenthal Dissertation Fellow,

William Rainey Harper Dissertation-year Fellow
Scientific career
Fields Theoretical neuroscience
Institutions The Rockefeller University, International Centre for Theoretical Physics
Doctoral advisor Leo P. Kadanoff
Other academic advisors Oreste Piro
Mitchell J. Feigenbaum
Albert J. Libchaber

Marcelo Osvaldo Magnasco is a biophysicist and currently a professor 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] other studies of biological networks such as leaf venation,[5] and for placing the date of the solar eclipse mentioned in the Odyssey on April 16, 1178 B.C.[6] together with Constantino Baikouzis of the National University of La Plata.[7][8]

Recently, Magnasco has formed a group with cetacean researcher Diana Reiss in order to study marine mammal communication and cognition.[9] Their interdisciplinary team is currently probing dolphin intelligence using an underwater interactive touchpad at the National Aquarium (Baltimore).[10]

References

  1. ↑ Maddox, John (Sep 16, 1993), "Making Models of Muscle Contraction", Nature, 365: 203, doi:10.1038/365203a0
  2. ↑ Ball, Phillip (Nov 2, 2001), "Canaries Change Their Tune", Nature News, doi:10.1038/news011108-2
  3. ↑ Cho, Adrian (Jun 16, 2000), "What's shaking in the ear?", Science, 288: 1954–1955, doi:10.1126/science.288.5473.1954
  4. ↑ Complexity Digest 2000.19, Complexity Digest, Feb 19, 2001
  5. ↑ Lichtman, Flora (Feb 19, 2010), Lighting Up Leaves, Science Friday, archived from the original on 2011-09-28
  6. ↑ 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, retrieved 2008-06-27
  7. ↑ Bär, Nora (July 1, 2008), "Hallan precisiones astronómicas en la poesía de Homero]", Diario La Nacion, Edicion, Diario La Nacion, retrieved 2008-01-07
  8. ↑ Minkel, JR (Jun 23, 2008), "Homer's Odyssey Said to Document 3,200-Year-Old Eclipse", Scientific American (News)
  9. ↑ Marine Mammal Communication and Cognition Laboratory Website
  10. ↑ Scientists to probe dolphin intelligence using an interactive touchpad (PDF), May 25, 2017
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