Howard H. Pattee

Howard H. Pattee
Howard H. Pattee
Born	October 5, 1926 (age 97); Pasadena, CA
Education	BA, Stanford University, 1948 ; PhD Physics, Stanford University, 1953
Awards	AAAS (1984); Villa Serbelloni (Rockefeller Foundation) (1969); Sigma Xi (1953);
	Scientific career
Fields	Theoretical Biology; Origin of life; Complex Systems; Artificial life; Biosemiotics; Biocybernetics; Physics of Codes; Symbol Systems;
Institutions	Binghamton University;
Thesis	The Compound Reflection X-ray Microscope, Stanford, 1953.
Doctoral advisor	Paul H. Kirkpatrick
Doctoral students	Michael Earl Conrad; Luis M. Rocha;
Website	www.binghamton.edu/ssie/people/pattee.html

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.

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.^[1]^[2]

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

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

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

In 2019, a lichen species new to science, Catillaria patteeana, was named for Dr. Pattee. ^[3]

^ 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.
^ Waters, Dennis P.; Lendemer, James C. (2019). "The Lichens and Allied Fungi of Mercer County, New Jersey " (PDF). Opuscula Philolichenum. 18: 17–51.