Arturo Rosenblueth
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Arturo Rosenblueth Stearns (October 2, 1900 – September 20, 1970) was a
Mexican researcher, physician and
physiologist, who is known as one of the pioneers of
cybernetics.
Biography
Rosenblueth was born in 1900 in
Ciudad Guerrero,
Chihuahua. He began his studies in Mexico City, then traveled to Berlin and Paris where he obtained his medical degree. Returning to Mexico city in 1927, he engaged in teaching and research in
physiology. In 1930 he obtained a Guggenheim Scholarship and moved to
Harvard University, to the department of Physiology, then directed by
Walter Cannon. With Cannon he explored the chemical mediation of
homeostasis. Rosenblueth cowrote research papers with both Cannon and
Norbert Wiener, pioneer of
cybernetics.In 1944, Rosenblueth became professor of physiology at the
National Autonomous University of Mexico. Eventually he became head of the Physiology Laboratory of the National Institute of Cardiology, head of the Physiology Department and, in 1961, director of the Center for Scientific Research and Advanced Studies (
Cinvestav) at the
National Polytechnic Institute.Between 1947 and 1949, and again between 1951 and 1952, using grants from the
Rockefeller Foundation, he returned to Harvard to further collaborate with Wiener. Arturo Rosenblueth died September 20, 1970 in
Mexico City.
Work
Since the 1930s Rosenblueth worked with
Cannon on issues related with Chemical transmission among nervous elements. Between 1931 and 1945 he worked with several specialists, among them Cannon,
del Pozo,
H.G. Schwartz, and
Norbert Wiener. With Wiener and Julian Bigelow he wrote "Behavior, Purpose and Teleology", which, according to Wiener himself, set the bases for the new science of
Cybernetics. He devoted himself to the fields of nervous impulse transmissions, neuromuscular transmission, synaptic transmission, the propagation of impulses in the heart, the control of blood circulation, and the physiology of brain cortex. However he also taught several courses of mathematics and even musicology.
Quotes
- "The best model of a cat is another cat..., specially the same cat."
Publications
- 1937, Arturo Rosenblueth,Fisiología del sistema nervioso autónomo ("Physiology of the Autonomous Nervous System", with Walter Cannon
- 1943, Behavior, Purpose and Teleology, with Norbert Wiener, Julian Bigelow
- 1945, "The Role of Models in Science" with Norbert Wiener
- 1967, Mind and Body: a philosophy of sciente
- 1970, "Mente y Cerebro: una filosofia de la ciencia" hilosophy of science
References
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