Biography:Jeremy England
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|doctoral_advisor = Vijay S. PandeCite error: Closing </ref> missing for <ref> tag[2][3][4] England terms this process "dissipation-driven adaptation".[5]
Early Life
England's mother was the daughter of Polish Jewish Holocaust survivors while his father was a non-observant Lutheran.[6] England was born in Boston[7] and raised in a college town in New Hampshire. He was raised Jewish but did not study Judaism until he attended graduate school at Oxford University. He now considers himself an Orthodox Jew.[6]
England earned a bachelor's degree in biochemistry from Harvard in 2003. After being awarded a Rhodes Scholarship, he studied at St. John's College, Oxford from 2003 until 2005. He earned his Ph.D. in physics at Stanford in 2009.[1][8] In 2011, he joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Physics Department as an Assistant Professor.[7]
Theoretical work
England has received some publicity for his hypothesis of the physics of the origins of life, that he terms 'dissipation-driven adaptation'.[9][2][4] The hypothesis holds that random groups of molecules can self-organize to more efficiently absorb and dissipate heat from the environment. His hypothesis states that such self-organizing systems are an inherent part of the physical world.[6]
Pulitzer-Prize winning science historian Edward J. Larson said that if England can demonstrate his hypothesis to be true, "he could be the next Darwin."[6]
In popular culture
England and his 'dissipation-driven adaptation' theory features in Dan Brown's novel Origin. The fictional character is not related to the real Jeremy England.[10]
See also
- Energy rate density
- Maximum power principle
- Howard T. Odum
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Curriculum Vitae- Jeremy L. England, EnglandLab.com, http://www.englandlab.com/uploads/7/8/0/3/7803054/cv2014summer.pdf, retrieved December 17, 2014
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Massachusetts physicist claims he solved mystery of how life emerged from matter". Jan 23, 2014. http://rt.com/usa/massachusetts-physicist-solve-mystery-life-098/. Retrieved Dec 11, 2014.
- ↑ Tafarella, Santi (Jan 28, 2014). "Dissipation-Driven Adaptive Organization: Is Jeremy England The Next Charles Darwin?". http://santitafarella.wordpress.com/2014/01/27/dissipation-driven-adaptive-organization-is-jeremy-england-the-next-charles-darwin/. Retrieved Dec 11, 2014.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Jones, Orion (Dec 9, 2014). "MIT Physicist Proposes New "Meaning of Life"". http://bigthink.com/ideafeed/mit-physicist-proposes-new-meaning-of-life. Retrieved Dec 11, 2014.
- ↑ Perunov, Nikolai; Marsland, Robert; England, Jeremy (2016). "Statistical Physics of Adaptation". Physical Review X 6 (2): 021036. doi:10.1103/PhysRevX.6.021036. Bibcode: 2016PhRvX...6b1036P.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Meet the Orthodox Jewish physicist rethinking the origins of life" by Simona Weinglass, The Times of Israel, October 29, 2015.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Faculty biography of Jeremy England, MIT Dept. of Physics, accessed Jan. 9, 2015.
- ↑ England, Jeremy. "Curriculum Vitae". englandlab. http://www.englandlab.com/curriculum-vitae.html. Retrieved April 14, 2017.
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
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Further reading
- Wolchover, Natalie (2017-07-26). "First Support for a Physics Theory of Life". Quanta Magazine. https://www.quantamagazine.org/first-support-for-a-physics-theory-of-life-20170726/. Retrieved 2017-08-01.
External links
- Lab website
- Jeremy England discusses his theory of pre-biological evolution and the emergence of complexity in non-living systems - Interview on the 7th Avenue Project radio show
- [1] - What is life-lecture: Jeremy England on 9 September 2014. at Karolinska Institutet
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