George Oster
George F. Oster | |
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| Born | April 20, 1940 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Died | April 15, 2018 (aged 77) |
| Alma mater | U.S. Merchant Marine Academy Columbia University University of California, Berkeley |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Biology |
| Institutions | University of California, Berkeley |
| Thesis | High temperature saturated liquid and vapor densities and the critical point of cesium (1967) |
| Doctoral advisor | Charles F. Bonilla |
George Frederick Oster NAS (April 20, 1940 – April 15, 2018) was an American mathematical biologist, and Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology at University of California, Berkeley. He made seminal contributions to several varied fields including chaos theory, population dynamics, membrane dynamics and molecular motors. He was a 1985 MacArthur Fellow.