Conference: Harold Morowitz Symposium

圣达菲研究所（SFI）将于2017年8月举办哈罗德·莫罗威茨研讨会。本次研讨会将荣誉的生物物理学和遗传学领域的起源，谁也发挥了重要作用，在科学政策的一个主要人物的长期职业生涯。为期两天的研讨会将分为两个独立的部分：第一个是对莫罗威茨的贡献和对与会者的影响进行个人回忆的机会，第二个是重点介绍莫罗威茨开创新领域或作出重大贡献的一些主要领域：遗传学，生物物理学;和科学政策。莫罗威茨是一位领导人物，不仅塑造了科学界，而且也塑造了大众对地球生命地球化学起源的理解。他是一个很好的科学传播者在流行的水平和他的工作导致了许多非技术性的文章和永久展览的生命起源在新墨西哥州博物馆的自然历史和科学。拟议的研讨会将包括来自不同领域，性别和职业阶段的参与者。这次活动的结果将发表在SFI的情报报告之一，传播给各种各样的读者，包括学术界，商业界和一般公众Morowitz的早期学术研究和写作经常涉及热力学主题和物理原理在生物学中的普遍作用。在他的整个职业生涯中，他越来越多地从寻找最小的生命形式转向越来越全面的尝试来构建生命的本质和起源。从20世纪60年代末开始，一直持续到生命的尽头，莫罗威茨是塑造地球生命地球化学起源科学认识的领军人物。特别是，他的著作在阐述两个框架之一方面发挥了重要作用，这两个框架对于理解生命的起源至关重要：这种被称为“新陈代谢第一”的观点试图将生物化学的特定的、普遍的特征固定在地球化学的约束中，作为后来被称为“RNA世界”的信息主导观点的先驱和基础，该项目由分子和细胞生物科学系的分子生物物理学项目和物理学系的生命系统物理学共同创立。

The Santa Fe Institute (SFI) will host the Harold Morowitz Symposium in August 2017. This Symposium will honor the long career of a major figure in the origin of the fields of biophysics and genetics, who also played a significant role in science policy. The two-day Symposium will be divided into two separate sections: first an opportunity for personal recollections of Morowitz's contributions and influences on the participants and second, a focus on a selection of major areas where Morowitz started new fields or made major contributions: genetics, biophysics; and science policy. Morowitz was a leading figure in shaping not only the scientific but also the popular understanding of the geochemical origins of life on Earth. He was a good communicator of science at the popular level and his work resulted in many nontechnical articles and a permanent exhibit on the origin of life at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science. The proposed Symposium will include participants from diverse community of fields, genders and career stages. The results of the event will be published in one of SFI's Intelligence Reports disseminated to a wide variety of readers including those in academia, business and the general publicMorowitz's early academic research and writing often dealt with thermodynamic themes and the pervasive roles of physical principles in biology. Increasingly throughout his career, he turned from searches for minimal life forms to more and more comprehensive attempts to frame the nature and origin of life. Starting in the late 1960s and continuing through the end of his life, Morowitz was a leading figure in shaping the scientific understanding of the geochemical origins of life on Earth. In particular, his writings played a significant role in elaborating one of two frameworks that has become important for understanding life's origins: known as "metabolism first", this view tries to anchor specific, universal features of biochemistry in geochemical constraints, as a precursor and foundation for the later information-dominated view termed the "RNA world".This project is jointly cofounded by the Molecular Biophysics Program in the Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences and the Physics of Living System in the Division of Physics.