Howard T. Odum
| Howard Thomas Odum | |
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| Born |
September 1, 1924 Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S. |
| Died | September 11, 2002 (aged 78) Gainesville, Florida, U.S. |
| Fields | Zoology, Meteorology, Ecology and Systems Ecology |
| Alma mater |
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Yale University |
| Known for | Ecological economics, ecological engineering, Emergy, Maximum power principle, Systems ecology |
| Notable awards | Crafoord Prize (1987) |
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Howard Thomas Odum (also known as Tom or just H.T.) (September 1, 1924 – September 11, 2002) was an American ecologist. He is known for his pioneering work on ecosystem ecology, and for his provocative proposals for additional laws of thermodynamics, informed by his work on general systems theory.
Odum was the third child of the American sociologist Howard W. Odum, and the brother of Eugene Odum. Their father "encouraged his sons to go into science and to develop new techniques to contribute to social progress. Howard learned his early scientific lessons about birds from his brother, about fish and the philosophy of biology while working after school for the marine zoologist Robert Coker, and about electrical circuits from The Boy Electrician by Alfred Powell Morgan
Howard Thomas studied biology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he published his first paper while still an undergraduate. His education was interrupted for three years by his World War II service with the Army Air Force in Puerto Rico and the Panama Canal Zone where he worked as a tropical meteorologist. After the war, he returned to the University of North Carolina and completed his B.S. in zoology (Phi Beta Kappa) in 1947.
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