BIOLOGIST

Humberto Maturana

1928 - 2021

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Humberto Maturana Romesín (September 14, 1928 – May 6, 2021) was a Chilean biologist and philosopher. Many consider him a member of a group of second-order cybernetics theoreticians such as Heinz von Foerster, Gordon Pask, Herbert Brün and Ernst von Glasersfeld, but in fact he was a biologist, scientist. Maturana, along with Francisco Varela and Ricardo B. Uribe, was known for creating the term "autopoiesis" about the self-generating, self-maintaining structure in living systems, and concepts such as structural determinism and structural coupling. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Humberto Maturana has received more than 367,967 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Humberto Maturana is the 228th most popular biologist (down from 189th in 2019), the 31st most popular biography from Chile (down from 24th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Chilean Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Humberto Maturana ranks 228 out of 1,097. Before him are Thomas Cavalier-Smith, H. Robert Horvitz, James Dwight Dana, Clair Cameron Patterson, George Smith, and Francisco Varela. After him are Carl Bernhard von Trinius, Michael Houghton, Charles M. Rice, Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger, Ludwik Fleck, and Carl Gustav Carus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Humberto Maturana ranks 131. Before him are Branko Mikulić, Desmond Morris, Fumihiko Maki, Yaacov Agam, Christa Ludwig, and Roddy McDowall. After him are Juan María Bordaberry, Héctor Rial, Cy Twombly, James Randi, Victor Stănculescu, and Joseph Kittinger. Among people deceased in 2021, Humberto Maturana ranks 119. Before him are Thomas Cavalier-Smith, Ahmed Jibril, Manuel Santana, Lucinda Riley, Eduardo Martínez Somalo, and Cloris Leachman. After him are Joan Didion, Edward Cassidy, Adam Zagajewski, Renée Simonot, Jimmy Greaves, and Marshall Sahlins.

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In Chile

Among people born in Chile, Humberto Maturana ranks 31 out of 321. Before him are Roberto Matta (1911), Raúl Ruiz (1941), Jorge Alessandri (1896), Alexis Sánchez (1988), Orlando Letelier (1932), and Francisco Varela (1946). After him are Arturo Vidal (1987), Pedro Pascal (1975), Nicanor Parra (1914), Sergio Badilla Castillo (1947), Carlos Ibáñez del Campo (1877), and Antonio Skármeta (1940).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Chile

Among biologists born in Chile, Humberto Maturana ranks 3. Before him are Hugo Gunckel Lüer (1901), and Francisco Varela (1946). After him are Juan Ignacio Molina (1740), and Adriana Hoffmann (1940).

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