AAAS Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion

Biography

Harold Morowitz became a Robinson Professor after a long career of teaching and research at Yale University as Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and serving for five years as Master of Pierson College. The author of several books, Morowitz has written extensively on the thermodynamics of living systems, as well as on popular topics in science. Included in those publications are Mayonnaise and the Origins of Life (Scribner, 1985), Cosmic Joy and Local Pain (Scribner, 1987), The Thermodynamics of Pizza (Rutgers University Press, 1991), Entropy and the Magic Flute (Oxford University Press, 1993), and The Kindly Dr. Guillotin (Counterpoint, 1998). In his current research, Morowitz is investigating the interface of biology and information sciences and continues his exploration of the origins of life. Other books are The Beginnings of Cellular Life: Metabolism Recapitulates Biogenesis (Yale University Press, 1992) and The Facts of Life, co-authored with James Trefil, (Oxford University Press, 1992). He is Staff Scientist and former Director of the Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study and former Editor-in-Chief of the journal Complexity. His book The Emergence of Everything: How the World Became Complex was published in 2002 by Oxford University Press.