Arthur Winfree
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{{Short description|American theoretical biologist (1942–2002)}}
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| birth_place = St. Petersburg, Florida, United States
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| field = Theoretical Biology
| work_institution = University of Arizona
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Arthur Taylor Winfree (May 15, 1942 – November 5, 2002) was a theoretical biologist at the University of Arizona.{{cite news |author= Johnson, George |authorlink= George Johnson (writer) |title= Dr. Art Winfree, 60, Dies; Plumbed the Rhythms of Life |date= November 22, 2002 |newspaper= New York Times |url= https://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/22/us/dr-art-winfree-60-dies-plumbed-the-rhythms-of-life.html }} He was born in St. Petersburg, Florida, United States.{{cite web |url= http://www.siam.org/news/news.php?id=289 |title= Arthur Winfree obituary |work= SIAM News }}
Winfree was noted for his work on the mathematical modeling of biological phenomena (see Complexity and Singularity (system theory)): from cardiac arrhythmia and circadian rhythms to the self-organization of slime mold colonies and the Belousov–Zhabotinsky reaction. Winfree was a MacArthur Fellow from 1984 to 1989, he won the Einthoven Prize for his work on ventricular fibrillation, and shared the 2000 Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics{{cite journal |author= Strogatz, Steven |authorlink= Steven Strogatz |title= Obituary: Arthur Taylor Winfree |journal= Physics Today |date= June 2003 |volume= 56 |issue= 6 |pages= 74–75 |doi= 10.1063/1.4776726 |doi-access= free }} with Alexandre Chorin.
He was the father of Erik Winfree, another MacArthur Fellow and currently a professor at the California Institute of Technology, and Rachael Winfree, currently a professor in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources at Rutgers University.
The Arthur T. Winfree Prize was established by the Society for Mathematical Biology in his honor.{{cite web |title=Arthur Winfree Prize |url=https://www.smb.org/arthur-winfree-prize/ |publisher=Society for Mathematical Biology |access-date=July 3, 2022}}
Career
=Professorial history=
- 1965 Bachelor of Engineering Physics, Cornell University
- 1970 Ph.D. in biology, Princeton University
- 1969–1972 Assistant professor, University of Chicago
- 1972–1979 Associate professor of biological sciences, Purdue University
- 1979–1986 Professor of biological sciences, Purdue University
- 1986–2002 Professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, University of Arizona
- 1989–2002 Regents Professor, University of Arizona
=Awards and honors=
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| | 1961 | Westinghouse Science Talent Search Finalist |
| | 1982 | John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship |
| | 1984 | John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Prize |
| | 1989 | The Einthoven Award (Netherlands Royal Academy of Science, InterUniversity Cardiology Institute, and Einthoven Foundation) |
| | 2000 | AMS-SIAM Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics, "in recognition of his profound impact on the field of biological rhythms, otherwise known as coupled nonlinear oscillators"{{cite journal |title=2000 AMS–SIAM Wiener Prize |journal=Notices of the AMS |date=2000 |volume=47 |issue=4 |pages=483–484 |url=https://www.ams.org/notices/200004/comm-wiener.pdf |access-date = December 28, 2022 |issn=0002-9920}} (shared with A. Chorin) |
| | 2001 | Aisenstadt Chair Lecturer (Centre de Recherche Mathématiques, Université de Montréal) |
Publications
- {{cite book|author=Arthur T. Winfree|title=The Geometry of Biological Time|year=2001|isbn=0-387-98992-7|publisher=Springer-Verlag}} (Second edition, first edition published 1980).{{cite journal|author=Cohen, Joel E.|authorlink=Joel E. Cohen|title=Review: The geometry of biological time, by Arthur T. Winfree|journal=Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.)|year=1982|volume=7|issue=1|pages=280–283|url=https://www.ams.org/journals/bull/1982-07-01/S0273-0979-1982-15036-4/S0273-0979-1982-15036-4.pdf|doi=10.1090/s0273-0979-1982-15036-4|doi-access=free}}
- {{cite book|author=Arthur T. Winfree|title=When Time Breaks Down: The Three-Dimensional Dynamics of Electrochemical Waves and Cardiac Arrhythmias|publisher=Princeton University Press|year=1987|isbn=0-691-02402-2}}
- {{cite book|author=Arthur T. Winfree|title=Timing of Biological Clocks|year=1987|publisher=Scientific American Library, No 19|isbn=0-7167-5018-X|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/timingofbiologic00winf}}
- {{cite book|author=Editorial|title=Arthur T. Winfree (1942–2002)|year=2004|publisher=Journal of Theoretical Biology, No 230|pages= 433–439}}
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