Howard Hunt 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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| Born | October 5, 1926 Pasadena, California, U.S. |
| Education | BA, Stanford University, 1948 PhD Physics, Stanford University, 1953 |
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| Thesis | The Compound Reflection X-ray Microscope, Stanford, 1953. |
| Doctoral advisor | Paul H. Kirkpatrick |
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| Website | www |
Academics
editProfessor 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.[1][2] Books by other authors that have built upon his work include The Consciousness Instinct by Michael Gazzaniga[3] and Behavior and Culture in One Dimension: Sequences, Affordances, and the Evolution of Complexity by his former Ph.D. student Dennis P. Waters.[4]
Eponymous species
edit- In 2019, a lichen species new to science, Catillaria patteeana, was named for Dr. Pattee.[5]
References
edit- ^ Rocha, Luis M. (2001). "The physics and evolution of symbols and codes: reflections on the work of Howard Pattee". Biosystems. 60 (1–3): 1–4. doi:10.1016/s0303-2647(01)00103-4. PMID 11325499.
- ^ Umerez, Jon (17 October 2009). "Where Does Pattee's "How Does a Molecule Become a Message?" Belong in the History of Biosemiotics?". Biosemiotics. 2 (3): 269–290. doi:10.1007/s12304-009-9064-2.
- ^ Gazzaniga, Michael (2018). The consciousness instinct: Unraveling the mystery of how the brain makes the mind. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 9780374715502.
- ^ Waters, Dennis (2021). Behavior and Culture in One Dimension: Sequences, Affordances, and the Evolution of Complexity. Routledge. ISBN 9781000359565.
- ^ Waters, Dennis P.; Lendemer, James C. (2019). "The Lichens and Allied Fungi of Mercer County, New Jersey" (PDF). Opuscula Philolichenum. 18: 17–51.
Publications
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- 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.
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