Talk:Harold J. Morowitz

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I have tagged this article with as it was written by  who appears to be a paid editor. SmartSE (talk) 23:47, 31 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Good sources. SmartSE (talk) 22:09, 3 April 2012 (UTC)

Noted Biophysicist Professor Morowitz
It has come to our attention that there is a proposal to eliminate the article on the noted biophysicist Professor Harold Morowitz, on the grounds that he somehow is not in fact an eminent scientist. To the contrary, Morowitz has made substantial and enduring contributions to several fields during the course of a long and active life in science. As a professor at Yale, he recognized mycoplasma as the smallest and simplest living cell, a view validated decades later by genome sequencing, with attendant implications for the origin of life. Most famously, he systematically developed novel concepts in non-equilibrium thermodynamics and applied them to theories of the origin of life. During his years at Yale, he influenced and trained several generations of prominent scientists. Especially in later years, he reached out to a broader audience with extremely popular essays on science and medicine, and through leadership of the important Santa Fe Institute. Sincerely, Donald Engelman, Higgins Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry; James Rothman, Wallace Professor of Biomedical Sciences, Yale University; and Members, National Academy of Sciences, USA

Rothmanj (talk) 17:15, 9 April 2012 (UTC)


 * You will note that nearly 24 hours ago, per the notice at the top of this page, that the article deletion discussion was closed as "keep". Please read the discussion page to learn of the community's concerns regarding the notability of the subject (the problem was more with the way the article was created) and for further suggestions regarding creating articles on notable scientists. For future reference, if an article is subject to deletion, you may make your case on the discussion page for that deletion discussion before it closes. I hope this explains. Valfontis (talk) 18:13, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
 * P.S. You might also show this to Dmengelman. Valfontis (talk) 18:18, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
 * This isn't in regard to Mr. Morowitz but for reference I note that James Rothman and Donald Engelman both have articles here. Valfontis (talk) 18:30, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
 * as indeed should any member of the National Academy of Sciences--such is a sufficient criterion for notability. We are, however, still lacking many-- see the List of members of the National Academy of Sciences, even such relatively well covered parts of it as the List of members of the National Academy of Sciences (Biophysics and computational biology) -- only the Mathematics and Computer Sciences sections are complete. What we need is for people not to concern themselves with arguing over trivial issues which do no harm to Wikipedia, but to work on the thousands of needed articles of real importance. The greatest help a scientist can do here is to write articles both in his subject, and on his eminent colleagues, present and past. WP:PROF is the criterion, and help is available from the subject wikiprojects-- see WP:WikiProject Science for a list of them.  DGG ( talk ) 18:59, 9 April 2012 (UTC)

Thanks DGG. Note I wasn't saying they shouldn't have articles or the fact they have articles is any sort of problem. I was more pointing out that "it takes one to know one"--i.e. two notable scientists might be good judges of who else might be a notable scientist. Valfontis (talk) 19:49, 9 April 2012 (UTC)

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Selected scientific works: Article doesn't exist
The first reference in the selected scientific works (Morowitz, H.J. (1953), “The Information Content of Living Systems”, Physical Review, 91, No. 2, pp. 492–493) does not seem to exist. It is certainly not in the cited issue of the physical review journal, and I could not find it anywhere else. Sprlzrd (talk) 14:22, 11 August 2023 (UTC)