Re: Fundamentals of measurement and representation....

[Howard Pattee <***>]

> Judith wrote: My father used
> to tell a story about a colleague, named Ycas (pronounced
> "Ee-chas")(whose first name I can't remember for sure, but it
> may have been "Elohandro"?)

Martynas Ycas was a frequent visitor and colleague especially during the
time of the Center for Theoretical Biology at Buffalo. He wrote one of
the first books on the genetic code, before it was deciphered. The
physicist George Gamov and Ycas were fascinated by the problem of the
code and tried to solve it by theoretical reasoning that is still of
interest because of the quality of their thinking even though they never
discovered the actual code. That took a lot of experiments. 

Now,  who is Elohandro? The name sounds familiar, but I can't come
up with a face.

Howard