Marcelo Osvaldo Magnasco
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| 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 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 16th, 1178 B.C.[6] together with Constantino Baikouzis of the National University of La Plata.[7][8]
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