Leon Glass, Isadore Rosenfeld Chair in Cardiology and Professor of Physiology, Emeritus
Department of Physiology, McGill University
McIntyre Medical Sciences Building
Room 1118
3655 Promenade Sir William Osler
Montréal, Québec H3G 1Y6
Leon Glass was born in Brooklyn, NY. He obtained a Ph.D. in Chemistry in 1968 from the University of Chicago studying theory of atomic motions in simple liquids. Glass was a postdoctoral fellow in machine intelligence and perception (University of Edinburgh), theoretical biology (University of Chicago), and physics and astronomy (University of Rochester).
In 1975, Glass joined the Department of Physiology at McGill University, where he is professor emeritus and the Isadore Rosenfeld chair in Cardiology. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1994 and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (1998),the American Physical Society (1999), and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (2009).
Glass is also a French horn player, and is part of the executive committee of the I Medici di McGill Orchestra, an orchestra consisting mainly of McGill University's medical students and professors.