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Humberto Maturana

1928 - 2021

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Humberto Maturana Romesín (September 14, 1928 – May 6, 2021) was a Chilean biologist and philosopher. Some name him a second-order cybernetics theoretician alongside the likes of Heinz von Foerster, Gordon Pask, Herbert Brün and Ernst von Glasersfeld. 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. His work was influential in many fields, mainly the field of systems thinking and cybernetics. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Humberto Maturana is the 361st most popular biologist (down from 228th in 2019), the 36th most popular biography from Chile (down from 31st in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Chilean Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Humberto Maturana ranks 361 out of 1,097. Before him are Daniel Solander, Theodore Gill, Henrietta Lacks, Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach, Friedrich Loeffler, and Eugenius Warming. After him are Fritz Müller, Antoine Béchamp, Constantine Samuel Rafinesque, Pierre Edmond Boissier, Jean René Constant Quoy, and Olof Swartz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Humberto Maturana ranks 174. Before him are Cannonball Adderley, Joseph Kittinger, János Kornai, Wolfhart Pannenberg, Juris Hartmanis, and Harold Prince. After him are Nancy Marchand, Victor Stănculescu, Peter Taylor, Vitaliy Masol, Jack Tramiel, and Nicolas Hayek. Among people deceased in 2021, Humberto Maturana ranks 164. Before him are Kurt Westergaard, János Kornai, Joan Didion, Michael Apted, Olympia Dukakis, and Charles Grodin. After him are Renée Simonot, Christian Boltanski, Dusty Hill, Vladimir Menshov, Etel Adnan, and Borisav Jović.

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In Chile

Among people born in Chile, Humberto Maturana ranks 36 out of 321. Before him are Nicanor Parra (1914), Arturo Alessandri (1868), Roberto Matta (1911), Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle (1942), José Manuel Balmaceda (1840), and Francisco Javier Errázuriz Ossa (1933). After him are Luis Corvalán (1916), Carlos Ibáñez del Campo (1877), Arturo Vidal (1987), Gabriel González Videla (1898), Orlando Letelier (1932), and Marcelo Salas (1974).

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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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