Bernd-Olaf Küppers
(1944-)
Bernd-Olaf Küppers is a physicist, philosopher, and theoretical biologist, formerly at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry (Göttingen), then professor of natural philosophy at the University of Jena. His main research field is the origin and evolution of genetic information. He is author and editor of numerous books, including the monographs “Molecular Theory of Evolution” and “Information and the Origin of Life”. He has been recognized with, among other things, memberships of the German National Academy of Sciences and the Academia Europaea (London).
Küppers has published four books important for information philosophy, the 1983
Molecular Theory of Evolution: Outline of a Physico-Chemical Theory of the Origin of Life, the 1990
Information and the Origin of Life, the 2018
The Computability of the World: How Far Can Science Take Us? , and the 2022
The Language of Living Matter: How Molecules Acquire Meaning.
Küppers varied the famous quote by Theodore Dobzhansv "Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution" to become "Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Information."
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