Howard H. Pattee

Howard H. Pattee
Born	October 5, 1926 Pasadena, CA
Residence	United States
Fields	Theoretical Biology Origin of life Complex Systems Artificial life Biosemiotics Biocybernetics Physics of Codes Symbol Systems
Institutions	Binghamton University
Education	BA, Stanford University, 1948 PhD Physics, Stanford University, 1953
Thesis	The Compound Reflection X-ray Microscope, Stanford, 1953.
Doctoral advisor	Paul H. Kirkpatrick
Doctoral students	Michael Earl Conrad Peter Cariani Eric Minch Luis M. Rocha Dennis P. Waters
Influences	John von Neumann C. H. Waddington Michael Polanyi George Polya
Notable awards	AAAS (1984) Villa Serbelloni (Rockefeller Foundation) (1969) Sigma Xi (1953)
Website www.binghamton.edu/ssie/people/pattee.html

Biography

Howard H. Pattee is a Professor Emeritus at Binghamton University. His 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 have had much influence on theoretical biology, biosemiotics, complex systems and artificial life.^[1][2]

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

References

1. Howard H. Pattee. Hierarchy theory: the challenge of complex systems". G. Braziller, 1973.
2. 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. doi:10.1007/978-94-007-5161-3. 2012

External links

• Google Scholar
• Special Festschrift issue of BioSystems on Pattee's work.
• Collected works: Laws, Language and Life: Howard Pattee's classic papers on the physics of symbols with contemporary commentary.
• Bibliography and Downloadable Papers

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