Arturo Rosenblueth (*
October 2,
1900 in Ciudad Guerrero,
Chihuahua- †
September 20,
1970 in
Mexico City) was a
Mexican researcher, physician and
physiologist.In 1930 he obtains a Guggenheim Scholarship and moves to
Harvard University, to the department of Physiology, then directed by
Walter Cannon. In 1934 he worked with
Cannon on issues related with Chemical transmission among nervous elements. Between 1931 and 1945 he worked with several specialists, among them Cannon, del Pozo, H.G. Schwartz, and
Norbert Wiener, the last of whom he wrote with "Behavior, Purpose and Teleology", which, according to Wiener himself, set the bases for the new science of
Cybernetics. Between 1947 and 1949, and again between 1951 and 1952, under grants of
Rockefeller Foundation he continued his work along side Wiener.
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