- List of systems scientists
This is a list of systems scientists, people who made notable contributions in the field of the
systems science s: [This list is based on the following sources:
* ASC cybernetics, "A history of cybernetics", website 2007.
* Charles François, "Systemics and cybernetics in historical perspective", in: Systems Research and Behavioral Science, jaargang 16, p. 203-219, 1999
* ISSS, [http://isss.org/projects/luminaries "Luminaries of the Systemics Movement"] , webpage, 2007/06/10.
* Principia Cybernetica, "list of cybernetic and systems scientists", website 2007."And further:
* The wikipedia articles in the field of systems, systems science and systems theory. For example:catastrophe theory ,chaos theory ,complex adaptive system ,complex systems ,control theory ,cybernetics ,ecosystem ecology ,multi-agent system ,systems biology ,systems ecology ,systems engineering andsystems theory .
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Russell L. Ackoff (1919) is an Americanscientist in the field ofmanagement science ,operations research andsystems theory .
*Genrich Altshuller (1926-1998) was a Russianengineer and scientist, and inventor of theTheory of Inventive Problem Solving .
*Pyotr Anokhin (1898-1974) was aRussia n biologist and physiologist who made important contributions tocybernetics and functional systems.
*Leo Apostel (1925-1995) was a Belgianphilosopher who advocated of interdisciplinary research betweenexact science andhumanities .
*W. Brian Arthur (1945), is an Irisheconomist , is an expert on economics and complexity theory in technology and financial markets, and other applications.
*W. Ross Ashby (1903-1972) was an Englishpsychiatrist and a pioneer field ofcomplex systems .B
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Per Bak (1948-2002) was a Danishtheoretical physicist , to whom is attributed the development of the concept ofself-organized criticality .
*Bela H. Banathy (1919-2003) was a Hungariansystems scientist , design scientist, educator, author and coordinator of many international systems research conferences.
*Béla A. Bánáthy (1946 ?) is an Americansystems scientist , who works at the International Systems Institute at theSaybrook Graduate School .
*Yaneer Bar-Yam (1959) is an Americanphysicist , systems scientist and founding president of theNew England Complex Systems Institute .
*Gregory Bateson (1904-1980) was a Britishanthropologist , social scientist, linguist, andcyberneticist whose work intersected that of many other fields.
* Kenneth D. Bailey (1943) is an Americansociologist , who worked in the field of research methods,systems theory and environmental demography and ecology.
*Stafford Beer (1926-2002) was a Britishmanagement scientist , known for his work in the fields of operational research andmanagement cybernetics .
*Harold Stephen Black (1898-1983) was an Americanelectrical engineer , who revolutionized the field of applied electronics by inventing thenegative feedback amplifier in1927 .
*Alexander Bogdanov (1873-1928) was a Russianphysician , philosopher, economist, science fiction writer, and revolutionary.
*Kenneth E. Boulding (1910-1993) was a Britisheconomist , educator, peace activist, poet, religious mystic, devoted Quaker, systems scientist, andinterdisciplinary philosopher .
*Murray Bowen (1913-1990) was an Americanpsychiatrist and pioneers of family therapy andsystemic therapy .
*Valentino Braitenberg (1926) is Germanneurologist and cyberneticist and pioneer inembodied cognitive science .
* Richard Peirce Brent (1946) is an Australianmathematician andcomputer scientist who is known forBrent's method of root finding.
*Gerrit Broekstra (1941) is a Dutch scientist and professor oforganizational behavior andsystems sciences .
*Walter F. Buckley (1922-2006) was an Americansociologist , and among the first to applyGeneral systems theory to sociology.C
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Donald T. Campbell (1916-1996) was an Americansocial scientist , who coined the termevolutionary epistemology .
*Peter Checkland (1930) is a Britishmanagement scientist , who developedsoft systems methodology .
*Harold Chestnut (1918-2001) was an Americanelectrical engineer and, who wrote some classic books aboutsystems engineering .
*C. West Churchman (1913-2004) was an Americanphilosopher in the field ofmanagement science ,operations research andsystems thinking .
* James J. Collins is an American bioengineer and Professor of Biomedical Engineering atBoston University . He is one of the founders of the emerging field ofsynthetic biology , and a pioneering researcher insystems biology ,stochastic resonance , biological dynamics and neurostimulation.D
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Vladimir Damgov (1947-2006) was a Bulgarian physicist, mathematician, union leader and parliamentarian, who particularly contributed to the application ofchaos theory .
*Herman Daly (1938) is an American ecological economist.
*George Dantzig (1914–2005) was an American mathematician who is considered the "father oflinear programming ".E
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David Easton (1917) is a Canadian political scientist, who developed application of systems theory topolitical science .
*Frederick Edmund Emery (1925-1997) was an Australian psychologist, and pioneers in the field ofOrganizational development .
*Hugo O. Engelmann (1917–2002) was an American sociologist, anthropologist and general systems theorist.
*Joshua M. Epstein is an American expert in social and economic dynamics, and member of theSanta Fe Institute .
*Hugh Everett (1930 – 1982) was an American physicist, who developed the use of generalized lagrange multipliers inoperations research .F
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J. Doyne Farmer (1952) is an American physicist, and one of the founding fathers ofchaos theory .
*Mitchell Feigenbaum (1944) is an American mathematical physicist whose pioneering studies inchaos theory led to the discovery of theFeigenbaum constants .
*Peter C. Fishburn (1936) is an American scientist known as a pioneer in the field of decision making processes.
*Heinz von Foerster (1911-2002) was an Austrian-American scientist combining physics and philosophy. Together with Warren McCulloch, Norbert Wiener, and John von Neumann, Heinz von Foerster was the architect ofcybernetics .
*Jay Forrester (1918) is an American computer engineer, known as founder ofSystem Dynamics , which deals with the simulation of interactions between objects indynamic systems .
*Charles François (1922) is a Belgian specialist in the field ofcybernetics and systems science, known as founding editor of theInternational Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics
* Christian Fuchs (1976) is an Austrian social scientist who focuses his research oninformation society theory, social theory,critical theory .
*Buckminster Fuller (1895 – 1983) was an American visionary, designer, architect, poet, author, and inventor. He was one of the first to propagate a systemicworldview and explored principles ofenergy efficiency andmaterial efficiency in the fields of architecture, engineering and design.G
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Murray Gell-Mann (1929) is an American physicist and Nobel Prize winner in physics for his work on the theory of elementary particles.
*Ralph Waldo Gerard (1900-1974) was an American neurophysiologist and behavioral scientist and one of the founders of the Society for General Systems Research.
*Tom Gilb (1940) is an American systems engineer.
*Harry H. Goode (1909-1960) was an American computer engineer and systems engineer and professor at University of Michigan. Until his death his was president of the National Joint Computer Committee (NJCC). He wrote the famous "System Engineering Handbook" together with Robert Engel Machol.
*Brian Goodwin (1931) is a Canadian mathematician and biologistH
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Arthur David Hall III (1925-2006) was an American electrical engineer. He worked for years at Bell Labs. He was one ot the founders of the (IEEE) and was among the first general systems theorists. He wrote "A methodology of Systems Engineering" from 1962.
*Debora Hammond is an American historian of science and a systems scientist.
*Friedrich Hayek (1899-1992) was a Nobel prize economist and a philosopher who made pioneering contributions to complexity theory. He notably wrote "The Theory of Complex Phenomena" (1967).
*Derek Hitchins (1932 (?)) is a British systems engineer and was professor inengineering management , in command & control and insystems science at the Cranfield University, Bedfordshire, England.
*John Henry Holland (1929) is an American pioneer in complex system and nonlinear science. He is known as the father of genetic algorithms.J
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Michael C. Jackson (1951) is a British systems scientist, and expert inSystems Thinking ,Organizational Cybernetics , Creative Problem Solving and Critical Systems Thinking.
*Gwilym Jenkins (1933–1982) was a British statistician and systems engineer
*Clarence Johnson (1910-1990) was an American aircraft engineer and aeronautical innovator.K
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Rudolf Emil Kalman (1930) is an American-Hungarian mathematical system theorist, who is an electrical engineer by training.
*J. A. Scott Kelso (1947) is an Irishneuroscientist , who in 1985 he founded theCenter for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences .
*George Klir (1932) is a Czech-American computer scientist and professor of systems sciences at the Center for Intelligent Systems at the Binghamton University in New York. Author of several texts on systems, including "Architecture of Systems Problem Solving".
*Klaus Krippendorff (1932) is a Germancyberneticist , working on the mathematical foundations of cybernetics, general systems, communication and information theories.L
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Christopher Langton (1949) is an American biologist and one of the founders of the field of artificial life.
*Ervin László (1932) is a Hungarian philosopher of science, systems theorist, integral theorist, and classical pianist.
*Loet Leydesdorff (1948) is a Dutchsociologist andcyberneticist , known for his work sociology ofcommunication andinnovation .
*Edward Norton Lorenz (1917) is an American mathematician and meteorologist, and an early pioneer of the chaos theory.
*Niklas Luhmann (1927-1998) was a Germansociologist , who developed a systems theory applicable inpolitical science fromTalcott Parsons works.M
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Robert Engel Machol (1917-1998) was an American systems engineer and expert in the fields of operations research.
*Humberto R. Maturana (1928),
*Donella Meadows (1941-2001) was an American environmental scientist, known as lead author ofLimits to Growth .
*Dennis Meadows (1942) is an American economist and systems scientist, known as coauthor ofLimits to Growth .
*Mihajlo D. Mesarovic ,
*Margaret Mead (1901-1978),
*Warren McCulloch (1899-1969)
*James Grier Miller (1916),
*Melanie Mitchell is an American scientist
*Edgar Morin (1921) is a French philosopher and sociologist.N
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John von Neumann (1903-1957),O
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Eugene Odum (1913 -2002 ) was an American scientist known for his pioneering work on ecosystem ecology.
*Howard Thomas Odum (1924-2002) was an American ecosystem ecologist.
*Linda Olds (1946 (?)) is an Americanpsychologist and pioneer in the field of systems psychology.
*David Orrell is a Canadian mathematician.P
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Bradford Parkinson is an American systems engineer
*Talcott Parsons (1902-1979),
*Gordon Pask (1928-1996),
*Samuel C. Phillips (1921–1990) was an officer in the U.S. Air Force.
*Ilya Prigogine (1917-2003),R
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Simon Ramo (1913) is an American physicist, engineer, and business leader.
*Anatol Rapoport (1991) is a Russian mathematician, psychologist and systems scientist. He is cofounder of the International Society for Systems Science.
*Eberhardt Rechtin (1926-2006) was an American systems engineer and respected authority in aerospace systems and systems architecture.
*Robert Rosen (1943) is an American biologist and systems thinkerS
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Claude Shannon (1916-2001)
*Thomas B. Sheridan (1931) is Americanmechanical engineering and pioneer ofrobotics andremote control technology.
*Herbert Simon (1916-2001),
*Anthony Stafford Beer (1926-2002),
*Georgiy Starostin (1976) is a Russianlinguistics researcher at and a participant at theSanta Fe Institute 's "Evolution of Human Languages" project.T
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Arnold Tustin , (1899-1994), was a British engineer.U
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Stuart A. Umpleby (1944) is an Americancyberneticist working in the field of cross-cultural management, cybernetics, group facilitation methods, systems science and the use of computer networks.V
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Francisco J. Varela (1945-2001),
* Geoffrey Vickers (1894-1982),
*Ludwig von Bertalanffy (1901-1972) was an Austrian Canadian biologist, fysiologist and systems scientist, and cofounder of the International Society for Systems Science.W
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John Nelson Warfield (1928(?)) is an American electrical engineering and systems scientist, and member of the Academic Committee of the International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics.
*Kevin Warwick (1954) is a British Cybernetician with interests in artificial intelligence, robotics, control systems and biomedical engineering, especially implant technology.
*Duncan J. Watts is an American professor of sociology
*Paul Watzlawick (1921-2007),
*Geoffrey West (1940) is a Britisch physicist.
*Douglas R. White (1942) is an American complexity researcher, social anthropologist and sociologist.
* Brian Wilson is a British systems scientist, known for his development ofSoft systems methodology .
*Stephen Wolfram (1959) is English theorist known for his work in theoretical particle physics, cellular automata, complexity theory, and computer algebra.
*A. Wayne Wymore (1927) is an American mathematician and systems engineer. Founder and first Chairman of Systems and Industrial Engineering (SIE) Department at the University of Arizona.
*Warren Weaver (1894-1978) was an American mathematician and communication scientist.
*Norbert Wiener (1894-1964) was an American mathematician and one of the founders of cybernetics.X
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*Erik Christopher Zeeman (1925) is a Japanese-born British mathematician known for work in geometric topology and singularity theory.
*Gerard de Zeeuw (1936) is a Dutch scientist and professor Mathematical modelling of complex social systems at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands.References
See also
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List of systems engineers
*People in systems and control
*List of systems sciences organizations External links
* [http://isss.org/projects/ Collaborative projects] of the ISSS with a lot of information about the field of systems science.
* [http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/CSTHINK.html Principia Cybernetica] website.
* [http://www.asc-cybernetics.org/foundations/timeline.htm A history of cybernetics]
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