Rashevsky, Nicolas

(b. 1899, Chernikov, Russia, d. 1972, Holland, MI). Trained in Russia as a mathematical physicist Rashevsky immigrated to the United States in 1924. At the University of Pittsburgh, he conceived the idea of building a mathematical biophysics on the model of mathematical physics. He also developed mathematized neural network theories of Pavlovian conditioning.
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