Otto Rössler
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Otto E. Rössler (born 20 May 1940) is a German biochemist.
Rössler was born in Berlin. At the age of 17, he became an amateur radio operator (DR 9KF). After considering becoming a monk, Rössler chose to major in medicine, with a specialty in immunology, for ethical reasons.
He was awarded his MD in 1966. Rössler then began his post doc at the Max Planck Institute for Behavioral Psychology, 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), and the Santa Fe Institute (Complexity Research) in New Mexico.
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. He wrote four books:
- Encounter with Chaos (1992, ISBN 0387556478),
- Endophysics: The world As an Interface (1992, ISBN 9810227523),
- Jonas World – The Thinking of Child (1994), and
- The Flaming Sword (1996),
as well as the CD Descartes' Traum, a compilation of his short lectures.
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- 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.
