"an ecological scientist and policy-maker. He was a respected physicist best known for his theoretical work on complexity and thermodynamics. His Ph.D. thesis was entitled Self-Organization in Living Systems. Much of his work relates to integrating thermodynamics into an understanding of self-organization in biological systems."

[The Bernard cell] "is an example where as the amount of energy available to a system increases, the system self-organizes in order to dissipate energy more efficiently. Kay has examined how similar types of self-organization can occur within living systems at the level of individual organisms and ecosystems. In other words, organisms and ecosystems evolve to use the maximum amount of energy available to them." (Wikipedia)

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name	James J Kay
dOB	1954
dOD	2004
work	Unnamed