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Name
  
Howard Pattee



Born
  
October 5, 1926Pasadena, CA (
1926-10-05
)

Fields
  
Theoretical BiologyOrigin of lifeComplex SystemsArtificial lifeBiosemioticsBiocyberneticsPhysics of CodesSymbol Systems

Education
  
BA, Stanford University, 1948PhD Physics, Stanford University, 1953

Thesis
  
The Compound Reflection X-ray Microscope, Stanford, 1953.

Doctoral students
  
Michael Earl ConradPeter CarianiEric MinchLuis M. RochaDennis P. Waters

Influences
  
John von NeumannC. H. WaddingtonMichael PolanyiGeorge Polya

Books
  
LAWS, LANGUAGE and LIFE: Howard Pattee’s Classic Papers on the Physics of Symbols with Contemporary Commentary

Institutions
  
Binghamton University

Residence
  
United States of America

Doctoral advisor
  
Paul H. Kirkpatrick

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Howard H. Pattee (born October 5, 1926) is an American biologist, Professor Emeritus at Binghamton University and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He graduated at Stanford University in 1948 and completed a Ph.D. there in 1953.

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Contributions

Professor Pattee's main research interests are theoretical biology with a focus on origin of life, artificial life, biosemiotics, semiotic control of dynamic systems, and the physics of codes and symbols. His many contributions to the "symbol-matter" problem within the cell have had much influence on theoretical biology, biosemiotics, complex systems and artificial life.

Present title

  • Professor Emeritus, Department of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering, T. J. Watson School of Engineering, State University of New York at Binghamton, NY, 1998.

    • Previous positions

  • Professor, Department of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering, T. J. Watson School of Engineering, State University of New York at Binghamton, NY, 1975–98
  • Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Systems Science, School of Advanced Technology, State University of New York at Binghamton, NY, 1975–85
  • Research Professor, Department of Biophysics and Center for Theoretical Biology, State University at Buffalo, 1971–75
  • Acting Director, Biophysics Laboratory, Stanford University, 1967–68
  • Senior Research Associate, Biophysics Laboratory, Stanford University, 1960–64
  • Research Associate, Physics Department, Stanford University, 1953–60

    • Fellowships and awards

  • Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1984
  • Resident Scholar, Villa Serbelloni (Rockefeller Foundation), 1969
  • Senior Postdoctoral Fellow, National Science Foundation at Karolinska Institute, Department of Medical Physics, 1960
  • Sigma Xi Research Award, Stanford University, 1953
  • Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, Stanford University, 1953

    • Publications

  • Bibliography
  • Downloadable papers
  • Howard H. Pattee. Hierarchy theory: the challenge of complex systems. G. Braziller, 1973.
  • Howard H. Pattee and Joanna Rączaszek-Leonardi. Laws, Language and Life: Howard Pattee’s classic papers on the physics of symbols with contemporary commentary. Springer, 2012. doi:10.1007/978-94-007-5161-3.
  • Howard H. Pattee; Kalevi Kull 2009. A biosemiotic conversation: Between physics and semiotics. Sign Systems Studies 37(1/2): 311–331.

    • References

    Howard H. Pattee Wikipedia
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