Everything about Arturo Rosenblueth totally explained
Arturo (
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. In 1930 he obtains a Guggenheim Scholarship and moves to
Harvard University, to the department of Physiology, then directed by
Walter Cannon.
Rosenblueth was a professor of physiology at the
National Autonomous University of Mexico; head of the Physiology Laboratory of the National Institute of Cardiology; head of the Physiology Department and 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, under grants of
Rockefeller Foundation he continued his work alongside Wiener.
In the late 1940's, Rosenblueth returns to
Mexico to head the department of Physiology of the new National Institute of Cardiology, where Cannon, Wiener,
Luco and Osher will eventually work.
In 1961 he took the position of Director of the National Centre for Advanced Studies (
CINVESTAV), which he held until June 1970.
Arturo Rosemblueth died September 20th, 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, the last of whom he wrote with "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
1970, "Mente y Cerebro: una filosofia de la ciencia" (Mind and Body: a philosophy of science)Further Information
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