19 Facts About Humberto Maturana

Humberto Maturana Romesin was a Chilean biologist and philosopher.

Humberto Maturana's work was influential in many fields, mainly the field of systems thinking and cybernetics.

Humberto Maturana then went to Harvard for his PhD work with George B Chapman as his advisor.

Humberto Maturana produced a PhD thesis in 1958 and a research paper on the amphibian optic nerve.

Humberto Maturana never worked on frogs or optic nerves even during his later distinguished career at Georgetown University.

Humberto Maturana's thesis revealed the frog optic nerve contains thirty times more fibers than previously estimated.

Humberto Maturana found that the number of fibers in the optic nerve approximately matches the number of ganglion cells in the retina.

Humberto Maturana formally joined Lettvin's laboratory at MIT's Research Laboratory of Electronics as a post-doctoral fellow.

Lettvin and Humberto Maturana carried out the physiological and anatomical experiments and McCulloch and Pitts, famed for earlier theoretical work modeling neurons and neural networks and for epistemological approaches to the recognition of universals, provided theoretical rigor.

Humberto Maturana followed his anuran studies with studies in pigeon vision and with Lettvin and Wall, one of the first electrophysiological studies in octopus.

Humberto Maturana was appointed Assistant Prof in Dept of Biology of Medical School of University of Chile Santiago, at the age of 32.

Humberto Maturana worked in neuroscience at the University of Chile, in the Biologia del Conocer research center.

Humberto Maturana's work has been developed and integrated into the work on ontological coaching developed by Fernando Flores and Julio Olalla.

Humberto Maturana established his own reflection and research center, the Instituto de Formacion Matriztica.

Humberto Maturana died in Santiago on May 6,2021, at age 92, due to pneumonia.

Humberto Maturana's work extends to philosophy, cognitive science and even family therapy.

Humberto Maturana was inspired by the work of the biologist Jakob von Uexkull.

Humberto Maturana's inspiration for his work in cognition came while he was a medical student and became seriously ill with tuberculosis.

Humberto Maturana described the origins of the concept of autopoiesis and his collaboration with Varela.