Marcelo Osvaldo Magnasco Scientist

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, auditory biophysics, neural coding,; other studies of biological networks such as leaf venation.; and for placing the date of the solar eclipse mentioned in the Odyssey at April 16th, 1178 B.C. together with Constantino Baikouzis of the National University of La Plata.

Personal facts

Birth dateDecember 14, 1963
Birth place
La Plata
Education
University of Chicago
Known for
Odyssey
Brownian ratchet
Auditory system

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Scientist

academic advisor
Albert J. Libchaber
Mitchell Feigenbaum
doctoral advisor
Field of study
Computational neuroscience

Marcelo Osvaldo Magnasco on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://bigthink.com/ideas/18928
  2. http://lectures.princeton.edu/2009/marcelo-magnasco
  3. http://sur.rockefeller.edu/Plone/lab-members/marcelo-magnasco/vitae