James D. Murray

James Dickson Murray ( born January 2, 1931 in Moffat, Scotland) is an emeritus professor of applied mathematics at the University of Washington. Murray's research interests are in theoretical biology and here mainly in the mathematical modeling of ecological, medical and psychological contexts and he did not last reached through his authoritative book " Mathematical Biology " notoriety.

Murray studied mathematics at the University of St. Andrews, where he received his doctorate in 1955 at Andrew Ronald Mitchell ( Rotational flow in fluid dynamics) .. He also has a master's degree from Oxford University (1961 ), which he also in 1968 a PhD degree ( D.Sc. ) received. He was professor of mathematical biology and director of the Centre for Mathematical Biology, University of Oxford, before he became a professor at the University of Washington.

In 1985 he was Ulam Visiting Scholar at Los Alamos National Laboratory and he has been a visiting professor at the University of Florence (1976 ), Tsinghua University in China ( 1975), the University of Utah (1979 ), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1979 ), the University of Paris ( 1994-1996 ), the Caltech (1983 ), the University of Heidelberg (1980) and the University of Angers (1993).

He was 1968 Guggenheim Fellow. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh ( 1979) and the Royal Society (1985). In 2000 he became a foreign member of the Academie des Sciences. In 1989 he was awarded the Naylor Prize. 1991 to 1994 he was president of the European Society for Mathematical and Theoretical Biology.

He is a multiple honorary doctorate (St. Andrews in 1994, University of Strathclyde, 1999, University of Milan in 2004, University of Waterloo, 2006) and Honorary Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford ( 2000).

Privately, he is interested in art history, especially of the Middle Ages and regularly visits France.

Selected Publications

  • Mathematical Biology. 3rd edition in two volumes: Mathematical Biology: I. An Introduction (551 pages ) 2002; Mathematical Biology: Spatial Models and Biomedical Applications II ( 811 pages ) 2003 ( second printings 2004).
  • On the mechanochemical theory of biological pattern formation with application to vasculogenesis. Comptes Rendus Acad. Sci. Paris ( Biologies ) 326: 239-252, 2003.
  • On the use of quantitative modeling to help understand PSA dynamics and other medical problems (with KR Swanson and LD True). Amer. J. Clin. Pathol. , 119 ( 1) :14 -7, 2003
  • Virtual and real brain tumors: using mathematical modeling to quantify glioma growth and invasion (with KR Swanson, C. Bridge, and EC Alvord ), Journal of the Neurological Sciences, 216 ( 1) :1 -10, 2003.
  • Virtual brain tumors ( gliomas ) Enhance the reality of medical imaging and highlight inadequacies of current therapy (with KR Swanson and EC Alvord ). British J. Cancer 86: 14-18, 2002 [ Abstracted for inclusion in the 2003 Yearbook of the Institute of Oncology ].
  • Pattern formation, biological. In: The Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks (ed. MA Arbib ) pp. 851-859, MIT Press, Cambridge, 2002.
  • The Mathematics of Marriage: Dynamic Nonlinear Models (with JM Gottman, C. Swanson, R. Tyson, and KR Swanson ). MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2002.
  • A mathematical model for the dynamics of serum prostate specific antigen as a marker for cancerous growth (with KR Swanson, D. Lin, L. True, K. Buhler and R. Vassella ). Amer. J. Pathol. 158 (6): 2195-2199, 2001.
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