Emmanuel David Tannenbaum (June 28, 1978 – May 28, 2012) was an

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

i/American biophysicist and applied mathematician. He worked as a professor and researcher in the Department of Chemistry at the

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) ( he, אוניברסיטת בן-גוריון בנגב, ''Universitat Ben-Guriyon baNegev'') is a public research university in Beersheba, Israel. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev has five campuses: the ...

and the Department of Biology at the Georgia Institute of Technology, specializing in the fields of mathematical biology, systems biology, and quantum physics. Tannenbaum's initial work was in quantum chemistry as part of his

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of high ...

doctoral thesis where he developed a novel partial differential equation approach to the EBK quantization of nearly separable Hamiltonians in the quasi-integrable regime. Emmanuel Tannenbaum subsequently devoted his research to studying various problems in

evolutionary dynamics Evolutionary dynamics is the study of the mathematical principles according to which biological organisms as well as cultural ideas evolve and evolved. This is mostly achieved through the mathematical discipline of population genetics, along with ...

using quasispecies models. His seminal work centered on the key question of the evolutionary advantages of

sexual reproduction Sexual reproduction is a type of reproduction that involves a complex life cycle in which a gamete ( haploid reproductive cells, such as a sperm or egg cell) with a single set of chromosomes combines with another gamete to produce a zygote th ...

. Tannenbaum demonstrated a strong selective advantage for

with fewer and much less restrictive assumptions than previously considered. Closely related to this line of reasoning, was the original work by Tannenbaum and James Sherley on the immortal strand hypothesis. Tannenbaum also proposed a pioneering theory of why higher organisms need sleep. Towards the end of his life, he proposed a new approach to anti- stealth technology based on the theory of

Bose–Einstein condensate In condensed matter physics, a Bose–Einstein condensate (BEC) is a state of matter that is typically formed when a gas of bosons at very low densities is cooled to temperatures very close to absolute zero (−273.15 °C or −459.6 ...

. Emmanuel Tannenbaum received a number of honors including the

Robert Karplus Robert Karplus (February 23, 1927 – March 20, 1990) was a theoretical physicist and leader in the field of science education. Early life Robert Karplus was born in Vienna, where he lived until the German occupation of Austria in 1938. He emigrate ...

Prize in Chemical Physics from

, the prestigious Alon Fellowship from the

Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, based in Jerusalem, was established in 1961 by the State of Israel to foster contact between Israeli scholars in the sciences and humanities and create a think tank for advising the government on re ...

, and a

National Institutes of Health The National Institutes of Health, commonly referred to as NIH (with each letter pronounced individually), is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and public health research. It was founded in the late ...

research fellowship.National Institutes of Health Fellowship: E.D. Tannenbaum (Harvard University). http://report.nih.gov/award/index.cfm?ot=&fy=2005&state=&ic=NIGMS&fm=&orgid=3212901&distr=&rfa=&view=data&pil=T#tabpi Dr. Tannenbaum is the son of mathematician

Allen Tannenbaum Allen Robert Tannenbaum (born January 25, 1953) is an American/Israeli applied mathematician and presently Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics & Statistics at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is ...

and chemist Rina Tannenbaum. His sister, Sarah Tannenbaum-Dvir, is an oncologist/hematologist.

References

External links

Link to Emmanuel Tannenbaum's Homepage
{{DEFAULTSORT:Tannenbaum, Emmanuel 1978 births 2012 deaths Israeli mathematicians American people of Israeli descent Israeli biologists Israeli physicists Academic staff of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Systems biologists Harvard University alumni Jewish physicists