List of systems scientists

This is a list of systems scientists, people who made notable contributions in the field of the systems sciences:[1]

Russell Ackoff.
Gerhard Chroust.
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George Klir.
Margaret Mead.
Gary Metcalf.
Stuart Umpleby.
Francisco Varela.
Charles Vickers.
Stephen Wolfram.
Geoffrey West.
L.A. Zadeh

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  • David Easton (1917–2014) Canadian political scientist, who developed application of systems theory to political science.
  • Frederick Edmund Emery (1925–1997) Australian psychologist, and pioneers in the field of Organizational development.
  • Hugo O. Engelmann (1917–2002) American sociologist, anthropologist and general systems theorist.
  • Joshua M. Epstein American expert in social and economic dynamics, and member of the Santa Fe Institute.
  • Hugh Everett (1930–1982) American physicist, who developed the use of generalized lagrange multipliers in operations research.

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  • Murray Gell-Mann (1929–2019) American physicist and Nobel Prize winner in physics for his work on the theory of elementary particles.
  • Ralph Waldo Gerard (1900–1974) American neurophysiologist and behavioral scientist and one of the founders of the Society for General Systems Research.
  • Jamshid Gharajedaghi (born c. 1940) American organizational theorist, management consultant, and Adjunct Professor of Systems thinking
  • Tom Gilb (born 1940) American systems engineer.
  • Harry H. Goode (1909–1960) 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 (born 1931) Canadian mathematician and biologist
  • Barbara J. Grosz American computer scientist who developed the SharedPlans model for collaborative planning in multi-agent systems

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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 of the founders of the (IEEE) and was among the first general systems theorists. He wrote A methodology of Systems Engineering from 1962.
  • Stephen G. Haines (1945) is an American organizational theorist and management consultant.
  • Debora Hammond is an American historian of science and a systems scientist.
  • Albert Hanken (born 1926) Dutch mathematician and Emeritus Professor Systems theory at the University of Twente.
  • 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).
  • Francis Heylighen (1960) is a Belgian cybernetician working on self-organization and the evolution of complex systems
  • Derek Hitchins (1935) is a British systems engineer and was professor in engineering management, in command & control and in systems 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.

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  • Michael C. Jackson (1951) is a British systems scientist, and expert in Systems 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.

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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 Irish neuroscientist, who in 1985 he founded the Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences.
  • Faina Mihajlovna Kirillova (1931) is a Belarusian control theorist and former Department Head of the Institute of Mathematics of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus. Author of over 350 scientific papers and monographs about optimal control theory.
  • 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 German cyberneticist, working on the mathematical foundations of cybernetics, general systems, communication and information theories.

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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 American psychologist and pioneer in the field of systems psychology.
  • David Orrell is a Canadian mathematician.

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  • Simon Ramo (1913) is an American physicist, engineer, and business leader.
  • Anatol Rapoport (1911–2007) was 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.
  • Barry Richmond (1947–2002) was an American systems scientist,
  • Luis M. Rocha (1966) is a Portuguese-American systems thinker,
  • Robert Rosen (1943) is an American biologist and systems thinker

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  • Arnold Tustin, (1899–1994), was a British engineer.
  • Jaan Tallinn (1972), co-developer of the original Skype distributed system, co-founder of the Future of Life Institute and Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, accredited/trained Physicist

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  • Stuart A. Umpleby (1944) is an American cyberneticist working in the field of cross-cultural management, cybernetics, group facilitation methods, systems science and the use of computer networks.

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  • Francisco J. Varela (1945–2001)
  • Jan in 't Veld (1925–2005) Dutch aerospace engineer and organizational theorist
  • 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

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  • John Nelson Warfield (1925–2009) American electrical engineering and systems scientist, and member of the Academic Committee of the International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics.
  • Kevin Warwick (born 1954) British cybernetician with interests in artificial intelligence, robotics, control systems and biomedical engineering, especially implant technology.
  • Duncan J. Watts American professor of sociology
  • Paul Watzlawick (1921–2007)
  • Geoffrey West (born 1940) British physicist.
  • Douglas R. White (born 1942) American complexity researcher, social anthropologist and sociologist.
  • Brian Wilson British systems scientist, known for his development of Soft systems methodology.
  • Stephen Wolfram (born 1959) English theorist known for his work in theoretical particle physics, cellular automata, complexity theory, and computer algebra.
  • A. Wayne Wymore (born 1927) 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) American mathematician and communication scientist.
  • Norbert Wiener (1894–1964) American mathematician and one of the founders of cybernetics.

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  • Lotfi Asker Zadeh
  • Erik Christopher Zeeman (born 1925) Japanese-born British mathematician known for work in geometric topology and singularity theory.
  • Gerard de Zeeuw (born 1936) Dutch scientist and professor Mathematical modelling of complex social systems at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands.

See also

References
  1. 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, Luminaries of the Systemics Movement Archived 2007-08-20 at the Wayback Machine, webpage, 2007/06/10.
    • Principia Cybernetica, list of cybernetic and systems scientists, website 2007.
    And further:
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