John Edward Huth

John Edward Huth was born in London, England in 1958. He is currently the Donner Professor of Science at Harvard University. Professor Huth's main research interests focus on the experimental study of elementary particle physics. He teaches in the Harvard University Physics Department, and teaches a General Education class, Primitive Navigation. Prof. Huth was a member of the CDF experiment at Fermilab and worked on the discovery of the top quark there, among other topics. More recently, Prof. Huth is currently a member of the ATLAS Collaboration and participated in the discovery of the Higgs boson (the so-called god particle).

A second research topic of interest is cultures of navigation found in different regions of the world, and the particular intersection of cultural practices and the environmental influences on how people navigate. Some focus is on the cultures of the Pacific Islands, the Norse, and the rise of western European celestial navigation from its roots in astrology and astronomy. His first book on this topic, The Lost Art of Finding Our Way, explores this subject. The General Education class, Primitive Navigation, taught at Harvard, uses a variety of real life exercises to teach the subject.