John Harte (scientist)
John Harte (born July 8, 1939) is an ecologist and Professor of the Graduate School in the Energy and Resources Group at the University of California at Berkeley and an elected Fellow of the American Physical Society. His work includes investigation into a maximum entropy theory of ecology and long-term experiments on the effects of climate change on alpine ecology. Academic career. Harte received his B.A. from Harvard University in 1961 and his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Wisconsin in 1965. He was an Assistant Professor of Physics at Yale University from 1968-1973 . During his time at Yale, he transitioned into the study of theoretical ecology, and joined the UC Berkeley faculty as an ecologist in the Energy and Resources Group in 1973. Honors and awards. He was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1988 ""for contributions to the interface between physics and ecology, including development of understanding of climate codification due to nuclear winter and to the impact of acid rain on aquatic ecosystems"" He received the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1993 and the Leo Szilard prize from the American Physical Society in 2001.