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Aron ByhovskyOutstanding Soviet physicist, teacher, doctor of sciences
Date of Birth: 13.08.1929
Country:  Ukraine |
Content:
- Early Life and Education
- Education:
- Academic Career
- Major Publications
- Contributions to Science
- Information in Living Systems:
- Intergenerational Entropy Reduction:
- Planarian Studies:
Early Life and Education
Born:August 13, 1929, in Shchors (now Snovsk), Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine
Education:
- 1944: Graduated from Kyiv High School No. 131 with a gold medal- 1946-1951: Kyiv National University имени Тараса Шевченко, majoring in Physics
Academic Career
Professor of Physics:- Ukrainian Agricultural Academy, from March 13, 1981
Research Interests
Physical Chemistry:
- Surface phenomena
- Capillarity
- Surface tension
Information Theory:
- Connection between entropy and information in biological systems
- Role of information in the evolution and organization of living systems
Major Publications
- Monographs on physical chemistry- Articles in scientific journals, including:
- "Non-isothermal Spreading of Liquid Metals on Solid Surfaces" (co-authored with A. V. Pashchenko) in the journal "Physics of Metals and Metallography"
Contributions to Science
Evolution and Thermodynamics:- Proposed that the transmission of information during evolution and technological advancement contributes to a decrease in entropy.
- Argued that mathematical formulas for negentropy and information are related due to their common measure of system organization.
Information in Living Systems:
- Emphasized the crucial role of information exchange in the survival of organisms.
- Described how information signals increase functional connections within a system, leading to increased organization and reduced entropy.
Intergenerational Entropy Reduction:
- Investigated the decrease in entropy from generation to generation."Sounding" Plant Growth:
- Demonstrated that exposing plants to certain sounds affects their growth at the molecular level.
Planarian Studies:
- Showed that trained planarians (flatworms) released chemical substances that accelerated the learning process in untrained worms.
