Otto Rössler
Otto E. Rössler (born 20 May 1940) is a German biochemist known for his work on chaos theory and the theoretical equation known as the Rössler attractor.
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[edit] Biography
Rössler was born in Berlin. He was awarded his MD in 1966. Rössler then began his post doc at the Max Planck Institute for Behavioral Physiology, in Bavaria. In 1969, he started a visiting appointment at the Center for Theoretical Biology at SUNY-Buffalo. Later that year, he became Professor for Theoretical Biochemistry at the University of Tübingen. In 1976, he became a tenured University Docent. In 1994, he became Professor of Chemistry by decree.
Rössler has held visiting positions at the University of Guelph (Mathematics) in Canada, the Center for Nonlinear Studies of the University of California at Los Alamos, the University of Virginia (Chemical Engineering), the Technical University of Denmark (Theoretical Physics), and the Santa Fe Institute (Complexity Research) in New Mexico.
[edit] Research
Rössler has authored around 300 scientific papers in fields as wide-ranging as biogenesis, the origin of language, differentiable automata, chaotic attractors, endophysics, micro relativity, artificial universes, the hypertext encyclopedia, and world-changing technology.
[edit] Advocacy
In June 2008 Rössler publicly criticized the Large Hadron Collider experiment supervised by CERN in Geneva and was involved in a failed law suit to halt it. He argued that the experiment could plausibly generate dangerous miniature black holes that could bring about the end of the world.[1] His arguments were later described as being "... based on an elementary misunderstanding of the theory of general relativity".[2]
Rössler has also been an honorary editor of the journal Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, which came under fire in 2009 for allegedly publishing papers without as strict peer review as would be expected for a scientific journal. In a subsequent libel suit brought by former journal editor Mohammed El Naschie in response to this criticism, Rössler testified on behalf of El Naschie, stating in court that peer review "is dangerous" and "delays progress in science".[3]
[edit] Bibliography
- Encounter with Chaos, 1992, (ISBN 0-38755-647-8)
- Endophysics: The world As an Interface, 1992, (ISBN 9-81022-752-3)
- Jonas World – The Thinking of Child, 1994,
- The Flaming Sword, 1996, (ISBN 3-7165-1017-3)
- with René Stettler: Interventionen. Vertikale und horizontale Grenzüberschreitung. 1997, (ISBN 3-87877-627-6)
- with Peter Weibel: Aussenwelt – Innenwelt – Überwelt. Ein Gespräch. 1997, (ISBN 3-87877-628-4)
- with Wilfried Kriese: Mut zu Lampsacus. Das Internet als Chance. 1998
- with Artur P. Schmidt: Medium des Wissens. Das Menschenrecht auf Information. 2000, (PDF; 1,61 MB
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as well as the audio book CD Descartes' Traum, a compilation of his short lectures read by himself. 2002, (ISBN 3-932513-28-2)
[edit] References
- ^ Gray, Richard (28 April 2010), Legal bid to stop CERN atom smasher from 'destroying the world', Daily Telegraph, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/2650665/Legal-bid-to-stop-CERN-atom-smasher-from-destroying-the-world.html, retrieved 2012-02-04
- ^ Nicolai, Hermann (July 2008), Comments on speculations raised by Professor Otto Rössler about the production of black holes at the LHC, CERN, http://environmental-impact.web.cern.ch/environmental-impact/Objects/LHCSafety/NicolaiComment-en.pdf, retrieved 2012-02-04.
- ^ Ghosh, Pallab (25 November 2011), "Nature journal libel case continues", BBC News, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15889634.
[edit] External links
- Otto Rössler. Institut für Physikalische und Theoretische Chemie, Universität Tübingen.
- Otto Rössler: From the origin of life to the architecture of chaos. (20 October 2004). Analyse Topologique et Modélisation de Systèmes Dynamiques.
