Fritjof Capra (born February 1, 1939) is an Austrian-born American physicist, systems theorist and deep ecologist.
In 1995, he became a founding director of the Center for Ecoliteracy in Berkeley, California.
He is on the faculty of Schumacher College.
Capra is the author of several books, including The Tao of Physics (1975), The Turning Point (1982), Uncommon Wisdom (1988), The Web of Life (1996), The Hidden Connections (2002) and The Systems View of Life (2014).