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Arthur Taylor Winfree, a distinguished theoretical biologist whose discoveries repeatedly opened new lines of inquiry in physics, died of brain cancer on 5 November 2002 in Tucson, where he was Regents’ Professor at the University of Arizona. Art was born on 15 May 1942 in St. Petersburg, Florida. As a boy fascinated by the mysteries of the living world, he decided somewhat paradoxically that the best strategy was to acquire the quantitative tools and training of a physicist. He majored in engineering physics at Cornell University and received his BS in 1965. His senior thesis gave another early hint of his unconventional way of thinking. Motivated by the phenomenon of circadian rhythms, Art devised a model based on an enormous collection of coupled, self-sustained oscillators. Those hypothetical oscillators were supposed to represent multiple cellular clocks whose collective behavior would be mirrored in an animal’s activity. Because no mathematical methods existed for analyzing large

Arthur Taylor Winfree - Physics Today Back Share BlueSky LinkedIn Facebook --> Twitter --> --> Email Download Obituaries / Article Arthur Taylor Winfree JUN 01, 2003 DOI: 10.1063/1.4776726 Steven Strogatz Arthur Taylor Winfree, a distinguished theoretical biologist whose discoveries repeatedly opened new lines of inquiry in physics, died of brain cancer on 5 November 2002 in Tucson, where he was Regents’ Professor at the University of Arizona. Art was born on 15 May 1942 in St. Petersburg, Florida. As a boy fascinated by the mysteries of the living world, he decided somewhat paradoxically that

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